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Year
Author
Book, Fiction
Companion Text, Shared space

Bring up the Bodies

2012
Hilary Mantel
William Mann on Bring up the Bodies
The Architecture of Accra
Book
Shared space

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

2024
Jennifer Hart
Parity in History?
Book
Contact zones

Behind the Scenes

1868
Elizabeth Keckley
Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book, Fiction
Cultivated land, Travel, Vernacular

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927
Willa Cather
Helen Thomas on Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Construction, Shared space

Accra: Architecture and Construction in the 1950s

2020
Kuukuwa Manful Lois Quartey Elton Kwei
Zofia Hansen in Szumin
Online article
Shared space, Utopia

The Search for the “Open Form”: The Extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery by Oskar and Zofia Hansen (1958)

2018
Mariabruna Fabrizi
Being a Stranger
Book, Fiction
Contact zones

A Lover’s Discourse

2021
Xiaolu Guo
Natália Peťková on A Lover’s Discourse
Loké Madame ETH
Book
Life work, Women as architects

The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

1998
Minnette de Silva
Erandi de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Shayari de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect
Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Book
Life work, Women as architects

Aino Aalto

2004
Ulla Kinnunen (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession

2000
Annmarie Adams Peta Tancred
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Ways of thinking

25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers

2021
Stephanie Travis Catherine Anderson
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book
Travel

A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine: To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland

1795
Ann Radcliffe
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Writing

Esthétique de la ponctuation fr

2012
Isabelle Serça
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Conjunction and Incongruity

2018
Polly Gould
Expanding Agency
Book
Shared space

Dividing Paris

2022
Esther da Costa Meyer
Book, Essay
Capitalocene, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

2020
Arundhati Roy
Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi
Disabling Environments
Article
Shared space, Spectra

Disorienting Disability

2019
Michelle Friedner Karen Weingarten
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions

2015
Angela Dimitrakaki Lara Perry
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Yalla, Feminismus! de

2019
Reyhan Şahin
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Spectra

Countersexual Manifesto

2018
Paul B. Preciado
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism

2008
bell hooks
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Fiction
Women as architects

Blaupause de

2017
Theresia Enzensberger
The Architecture of Accra
Article
Women as architects

Dominique Petit-Frère

2023
Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book
Gender

Modern Women: Modern Artists at the Museum of Modern Art

2010
Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)
On motherhood
Online article
Motherhood

The Mother Is Dead, Long Live (m)Othercare: Care as Alterity, an Introduction

2025
iLiana Fokianaki
S AM Publications
Book
Life work, Women as architects

S AM 09 – Anna Viebrock de

2011
Hubertus Adam
Liang Cheng Chung on Anna Viebrock
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book
Spectra, Ways of feeling

Behind Straight Curtains Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture

2007
Katarina Bonnevier
Milena Buchwalder on Behind Straight Curtains
Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests
Book

L’apprentissage du regard ; leçons d’architecture fr

2002
Brigitte Donnadieu
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Women as architects

Studio Gang: Architecture fr

2020
Jeanne Gang
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Gender, Life work

Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In

2011
Jasmine Rault
The Architecture of Accra
Article
Shared space

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s colourful high-rise in Accra

2017
Joana Lazarova
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

TEd’A Arquitectes

2018
Irene Pérez
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Vernacular, Ways of thinking

Whose Style? Taste, Class, and Power in Accra’s Architecture

2019
Kuukuwa Manful
Cartha 2018: Building Identity
Online article

City of the Dead

2018
Hélène Binet João Coles
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Care

Pour elles toutes: femmes contre la prison fr

2019
Gwénola Ricordeau
Reading Room Conversations in Preparation Fantastic refuge
Graphic novel

A City Inside

2016
Tillie Walden
Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book

Erinnerungen de

1980
Hedwig Dohm Berta Rahm Association ProSaffa1958-Pavillon (editor)
Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures
Online article

RT3DDT: poetics of synchronization

2020
Alina Nazmeeva
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book
Travel

A Tour in Switzerland: Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris

1798
Helen Maria Williams
Anne Hultzsch on A Tour in Switzerland
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners
Book
Vernacular

Architecture of the Indian Desert

2000
Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain
The Architecture of Accra
Book chapter
Shared space

Introduction, Ghana

2020
Kuukuwa Manful
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Environment­alism, Feminism

Feminism and Ecology

1997
Mary Mellor
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Article

An Approach to the Work of Gion A. Caminada es

2021
Silvia Alonso de los Ríos
Disabling Environments
Book
Writing

Typographic Systems

2007
Kimberly Elam
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners
Book
Vernacular

Mud Architecture of the Indian Desert

1992
Minakshi Jain
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Wir: Fotografinnen am Frauen*streik de

2020
Yoshiko Kusano (editor) Francesca Palazzi (editor) Caroline Minjolle (editor)
Feminism and Architecture
Book chapter
Women as architects

On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture

1977
Gwendolyn Wright
Claudia Ng on On The Fringe
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article

Why Nicolai Ouroussoff is not Good Enough

2010
Alexandra Lange
S AM Publications
Book

Melchior Berri 1801-1854: Architekt des Klassizismus de

2001
Dorothee Huber Doris Huggel
Book

Three Guineas

1938
Virginia Woolf
Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction