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CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Critique

Resonating Spaces: Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz, Rachel Whiteread. 5 Approaches

2019
Theodora Vischer
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter

Space and Structure; High Rise

2001
Phyllis Lambert (editor)
Book
Vernacular

African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective

1978
Susan Denyer
Fiction
Capitalocene

The Unreal and the Real

2012
Ursula K. Le Guin
Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Environment­alism

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development

1989
Vandana Shiva
Report
Environment­alism, Feminism, Food

Ecological Sustainability of Jeju Sea and the Role of Jeju Haenyeo’s Community ko

2021
Woo-Jeong Noh
Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article
Shared space

Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning

1955
Helen Rosenau
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Contact zones

The Accra Post Office

2020
Kuukuwa Manful
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’

2020
Laura Freeman
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Writing

À cet endroit, la pierre refroidit considérablement l’atmosphère fr

2016
Lucile Pujol Maxime Jaume
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Feminism, Ways of thinking

Raising the Roof: Women Architects Who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling

2021
Agata Toromanoff
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Domesticity

Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament

2018
Bridget Elliott Janice Helland
Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens
Online article
Feminism, Women as architects

Why is the world of architecture so male-dominated?

2016
Despina Stratigakos
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Soane’s Temple Stye

2020
Rosie Ellison-Balaam
After 8 recommends Madame ETH
Book
Ways of thinking

Edith Heath: Philosophies

2019
Jennifer Volland Chris Marino
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Fiction

House of Fear: Notes from Down Below

1988
Leonora Carrington
Finnish Women Writing
Book chapter

Modern Home, Environment, and Gender: Built Planned and Lived Spaces in Post-war Finland

2018
Kirsi Saarikangas Liisa Horelli
Finnish Women Writing
Book, Catalogue
Life work, Women as architects

Wivi Lönn 1872-1966 finnish

2022
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen (editor) Susanna Aaltonen (editor) Hanna Tyvelä (editor) Anna-Leena Lehto (editor)
Copyright Bookshop recommends Hochparterre Bücher recommends
Book
Domesticity, Shared space

Hidden in Plain Sight: Politics and Design in State-subsidized Residential Architecture

2021
Marta Rocha Moreira (editor) Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos (editor) Virgílio Borges Pereiro (editor) Sérgio Dias Silva (editor)
Conversations in Preparation
Book
Companion Text, Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970
Germaine Greer
Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Women’s Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960

2003
Brenda Martin (editor) Penny Sparke (editor)
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article
Domesticity, Gender

Queering the Home: The Domestic Labor of Lesbian and Gay Couples in Contemporary England

2015
Carla Barrett
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book
Travel

Das Bergell: Wanderungen in der Landschaft und ihrer Geschichte de

1901
Silvia Andrea
Lorena Bassi on Das Bergell
Article
Shared space, Utopia

Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)Construction of, by, and for Women of All Time

2008
Jill Wagner
Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Stack, Cut, Assemble ISO 668: How To Use Shipping Containers In Architecture

2018
Sibylle Kramer
Book, Fiction
Companion Text, Shared space

Bring up the Bodies

2012
Hilary Mantel
William Mann on Bring up the Bodies
Loudreaders
Book
Contact zones

Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization

2020
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Loudreaders on Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book

Why Architects Matter – Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

2018
Flora Samuel
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Environment­alism

Toolbox dorpse architectuur nl

2021
Edith Wouters (editor) Evelien Pieters (editor) Ward Verbakel (editor) Bart Biermans Joeri De Bruyn (editor)
Book
Critique

Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger

1986
Ada Louise Huxtable
Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable
S AM Publications
Book
Cultivated land

S AM 04 – Arch/Scapes: Die Verhandlung von Architektur und Landschaft in der Schweiz de

2008
Francesca Ferguson
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Marion Mahony Griffin

2021
Elizabeth Birmingham
Drawing Matter
Fiction, Online article
Representation

Behind the Lines 2

2017
Philippa Lewis
The Architecture of Accra
Book
Contact zones, Shared space

African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

2015
Ingrid Schröder (editor) Julia Jamrozik (editor) Manuel Herz (editor) Hans Focketyn (editor)
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter

The Need for Aged Buildings

1962
Jane Jacobs
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
Online article
Feminism

Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen

2017
Marie-Louise Richards
Drawing Matter
Fiction, Online article

Adam Bede’s ‘Discourse on Building’ (1859)

2021
George Eliot
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

O’Donnell + Tuomey in Conversation

2020
Sheila O’Donnell Sarah Handelman (editor)
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Article
Travel

Territorium de

1996
Alison Smithson Peter Smithson
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture

1973
Doris Cole
Manifesto
Feminism

Change, My Problem is a Problem of a Women

1979
Ewa Partum
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

The Kurtna Kolkhoz: Architectural Representations of Soviet and Post-Soviet Society

2019
Sonia Sobrino Ralston
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Martha Schwartz: Grafische Landschaften de

2004
Martha Schwartz
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book, Fiction
Feminism, Life work

Anna Göldin. Letzte Hexe de

1982
Eveline Hasler
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Travel

Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque

1995
Elizabeth A. Bohls
Expanding Agency
Book
Shared space

Housing, Architecture, and the Edge Condition: Dublin is Building, 1935-1975

2019
Ellen Rowley
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Dissertation
Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

El camino hacia la arquitectura: las mujeres de la Bauhaus es

2014
Josenia Hervás y Heras
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Feminism, Shared space

Auf Den Zweiten Blick: Städtebauliche Frauenprojekte Im Vergleich: 1 (Beiträge Zur Planungs- Und Architektursoziologie) de

2004
Anke Schröder (editor) Barbara Zibell (editor)
Book
Learning

Revolution! Deutschsprachige Kulturen im Umbruch 1918–1968 de

2023
Teresa Cañadas García (editor) Carmen Gómez García (editor) Linda Maeding (editor)