Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism, Gender

The Beauty Myth

2002

Naomi Wolf

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814

Julia Pardoe

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Lecture, Monograph

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

The Bauhaus Women Architects: Dicker, Meyer-Waldeck and Wilke

2022

Josenia Hervás y Heras

Novel

Travel, Writing

The Baudelaire Fractal

2020

Lisa Robertson

Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Battle For Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect

2016

Marwa al-Sabouni

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Feminism

The Awakening

1899

Kate Chopin

African State Architecture

The Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar temple, Seychelles

2020

Hangwei Li

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Artistic Mode of Revolution

2012

Martha Rosler

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia, Women as architects

The Artistic Architect danish

2025

Mia Frykholm

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Domesticity, Oral history

The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork

2012

Kirsty Bell

Writing Memory

Book

Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The Art of Building a Garden City. Designing new communities for the 21st Century

2017

Kate Henderson Katy Lock Hugh Ellis

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951

Amabel Williams-Ellis

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte On motherhood Madame ETH

Book

Motherhood, Spectra

The Argonauts

2015

Maggie Nelson

Tatjana Blaser on The Argonauts

The Architecture of Accra

Capitalocene, Contact zones

The Architecture of Exploitation in Ghana

2020

Amber N. Wiley

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

The Architecture of Closed Worlds Or, What Is the Power of Shit?

2018

Lydia Kallipoliti

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

The Architecture of an Island

1998

Barbara Sansoni Ronald Lewcock Laki Senanayake

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

The Architectural Drawing Course: The Hand Drawing Techniques Every Architect Should Know

2017

Mo Zell

Book

The Architects Collaborative 1945-1965

1966

Sarah P. Harkness Walter Gropius

Bene Wahlbrink on Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture

2001

Maggie Toy (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Women as architects

The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice

1996

Francesca Hughes (editor)

Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice

Book, Essay

Ways of thinking

The Architect as Worker : Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

2015

Peggy Deamer (editor)

Ji Min An on The Architect as Worker

Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

Feminism, Gender

The architect as genius: feminism and the aesthetics of exclusion

1991

Christine Battersby

On success

Poetry

Ways of thinking

The applicant

1963

Sylvia Plath

Book

Writing

The Apothecary

1991

Lisa Robertson

The Architecture of Accra

The Accra Post Office

2020

Kuukuwa Manful

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Article

The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory

2009

Ananya Roy

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

The (in)Famous Anca Petrescu. Authorship and authority in Romanian Communist architecture, 1977-1989

2016

Dana Vais Mary Pepchinski (editor) Mariann Simon (editor)

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Thanks For The View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit

2020

Danielle Aubert Lana Cavar

Cyberfeminism Index A Book I Love Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender

Testo Junkie

2013

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie

Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature

Book

Cultivated land

Terrain Vague : Interstices at the Edge of the Pale

2013

Manuela Mariani (editor) Patrick Barron (editor)

Researching Encounters

Book

Feminism, Ways of feeling

TERRA COTTA

2019

Emily Speed (editor)

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange

2017

Ana Miljački Amanda Reeser Lawrence

After 8 recommends

Book

Feminism

Tense

2021

Lucy R. Lippard Jerry Kearns (illustrator)

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Temporary Architecture

2014

Lisa Baker

Drawing Matter

TEd’A Arquitectes

2018

Irene Pérez

Cyberfeminism Index

Article

TechnoCapitalism Meets TechnoFeminism: Women and Technology in a Wireless World

2006

Judy Wajcman

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Ways of thinking

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

1994

bell hooks

WAI Think Tank on Teaching to Transgress

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Gender

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

2003

bell hooks

WAI Think Tank on Teaching Community

Hochparterre Bücher recommends

Book

Swissness Applied. Learning from New Glarus

2021

Nicole McIntosh Jonathan Louie

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Swing Time

2016

Zadie Smith

Albert Jiménez Rodríquez on Swing Time Elena Gallo and Tahnee Rutter on Swing Time

Report

Environmentalism, Food

Sustainable Design for Two Maine Islands

1985

Leslie Horst (editor) Sarah P. Harkness (editor)

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Susan Abel Maxman

2021

Sarah Rafson

Spazio Special Collection A Book I Love

Book

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

1972

Margaret Atwood

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Surrounded By Wood

2021

Agata Toromanoff

Drawing Matter

Surface-oriented

2019

Rosa Nussbaum

Drawing Matter

Superstudio: in Yesterday’s Tomorrow

2018

Eszter Steierhoffer

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture For Cities

2015

Davina Jackson Mary-Anne Kyriakou

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Super Limbo; by Limbo Accra

2024

Luisa Nannipieri

Fantastic refuge

Essay

Utopia

Sultana’s Dream

1905

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes on Sultana’s Dream