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Title
Year
Author
Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments
Article
Gender, Shared space

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

2019
Caroline Criado Perez
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Lecture, Poetry
Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979
Agnes Martin
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book
Feminism

The Creation of Patriarchy

1986
Gerda Lerner
Autobiography
Companion Text

The Cost of Living

2018
Deborah Levy
Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

2019
Charly Blödel
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Domesticity

The Contemporary House

2018
Ellie Stathaki Jonathan Bell
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism WAI Architecture Think Tank
Book
Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977
The Combahee River Collective
WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement
Book
For children

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890
Jean M. Auel
Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991
Elizabeth Wilson
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The City as Resource. Text and Projects 2005- 2014

2014
Myriam Perret (editor) Tim Rieniets (editor) Nicolas Kretschmann (editor) Chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse (editor)
Eureka! Touring Library
Book
Contact zones

The Citadel: A Trilogy

2022
Mame-Diarra Niang
Researching Encounters
Book
Domesticity

The Choreography of Everyday Life

2022
Annie-B Parson
Finnish Women Writing
Online article
Women as architects

The Changing Careers of Women Architects

2017
Pirkko-Liisa Schulman
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article
Feminism, Shared space

The Case for Safe Spaces

2016
Anne-Laure White
«Die Liste» On success Can Writing Be Activism? Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Essay
Feminism, Friendship

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

1988
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?
Book
Care

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

2020
The Care Collective
Disabling Environments
Book
Care

The Cancer Journals

2006
Audre Lorde
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies
Article
Domesticity

The Bottom Line Labourers of the Outsourcing Industry: A Study of the Domestic Labour of Married Women in Seoul ko

2023
Mihyun Jang
bodymind
Article
Spectra

The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain

2015
Margaret Price
bodymind
Online article
Spectra

The Bodymind Problem

2015
Allison Harper Hitt
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Book chapter
Care, Environment­alism, Spectra

The Body We Care for: Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis

2004
Vinciane Despret
Fantastic refuge
Book, Fiction
Feminism, For children, Oral history, Vernacular

The Bloody Chamber

1979
Angela Carter
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Black Drawings of Marie-José van Hee

2016
Helen Thomas
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Fiction, Poetry

The Bell Jar

1966
Sylvia Plath
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
Online resource
Women as architects

The Atlas of Warsaw Women Architects (ST-ZA) polish

2025
Anna Cymer
Adam Caruso on ARCHITEKTJI
African State Architecture
Online article

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)
Online article
Capitalocene

The Artistic Mode of Revolution

2012
Martha Rosler
spacegirls girltopia
Online article
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
Shared space

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
Article

The Archival Multitude

2013
Ruanne Abou-Rahme Basel Abbas
The Architecture of Accra
Book chapter
Capitalocene, Contact zones

The Architecture of Exploitation in Ghana

2020
Amber N. Wiley
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Capitalocene

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
Representation

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

2017
Mo Zell
«Die Liste»
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)
«Die Liste» 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
Article, Essay
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