Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Article

La matérialité de la pensée. Le problème de la grille en architecture. Entretient inédit avec Claude Parent fr

2010

Marie Corbin

Loudreaders

Book

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

1997

Saidiya Hartman

Loudreaders on Scenes of Subjection

Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism

Feminist Art Manifestos: An Anthology

2014

Katy Deepwell (editor)

Cartha 2018: Building Identity

An Architecture Without Contempt

2018

Brittany Utting Daniel Jacobs

Writing Memory

Gentleness, Life work

My Life

1980

Lyn Hejinian

Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Article

Feminism

Feministische Studien de

1982

Feministische Studien (editor)

Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)

Book

The Intimacies Of Four Continents

2015

Lisa Lowe

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Article

The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory

2009

Ananya Roy

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Contact zones, Vernacular

Agra: The Architectural Heritage

2010

Lucy Peck

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Contact zones, Spectra

Assembling the Centre – Architecture for Indigenous Cultures Australia and Beyond

2016

Janet McGaw Anoma Pieris

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Seen, Heard, Built Space as Matrix

Book

Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

1987

Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative

Elizabeth Darling on Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Oral history, Travel

Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal, and Glimpses of the South of Spain

1847

Dorothy Wordsworth

Essay

Beatrix Potter’s Places

1967

Alison Smithson

Jane Hall on Beatrix Potter’s Places

Finnish Women Writing

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

2018

Kirsi Saarikangas Liisa Horelli

Madame ETH

Film

Feminism

El Planeta Film Companion

2021

Amalia Ulman

Niels Olsen on El Planeta Film Companion

Article

Learning to Feel

2021

Fiona Kenney

Covid Diary, January 2022

What I Loved

2003

Siri Hustvedt

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

Le Corbusier

2015

Maria Antonietta Crippa

Decoratoresses

Book

Living Well, the NYTimes Book of Home Design and Decoration

1981

Carrie Donovan

Journal

Travel

Overseas Traveling and Writing as a Woman in Colonial Chosŏn: A Case Study of Western Travel Writing by Na Hye-Seok ko

2019

Ji-Eun Han

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Geoffrey Bawa Drawing from the Archives

2023

Shayari de Silva (editor)

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture

1957

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Critique

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design

2021

Fleur Watson

Book

As Mulheres do Meu País pt

1948

Maria Lamas

Carolina Catarino Gomes on As Mulheres do Meu País

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

On motherhood

Book

Motherhood, Spectra

Full Surrogacy Now

2019

Sophie Lewis

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Gender, Women as architects

No more Frauenghetto, bitte de

2017

Antje Stahl

Helen Thomas on No more Frauenghetto, bitte

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism

Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

1997

Mira Schor

The Architecture of Accra

Film, Online article

Domesticity, Shared space

GAEC Residence, 1960s

2021

Divine Fiave Alice Johnson

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951

Amabel Williams-Ellis

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Fiction

Spectra

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus

1818

Mary Shelley

Thinking & Writing Place

Article

Feminism

The Personal is Political

1970

Carol Hanisch

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

Seen, Heard, Built

Book

Feminism

女性主义建筑学理论 (Feminist Theory of Architecture) chinese

2014

Teng Jingru 滕静茹

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Article

Writing

Le Gaou Bénat, ou la poétique singulière d’un pay sage méditerranéen habité fr

2017

Stephanie Bender Béboux Philippe

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

Amaza’s Azurest: Modern Architecture and the ‘New Negro’ Woman

2019

Jacqueline Taylor

Book

Gender

Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen de

1932

Johanna Böhm

Despina Stratigakos on Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen

Gender, Spectra

These are the Axes

2012

Mark Aguhar

Tatjana Blaser on These are the Axes

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

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Monograph

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Eine Bauhaus-Architektin in der BRD: Wera Meyer-Wadeck de

2017

Josenia Hervás y Heras

Drawing Matter

The Maquette

2017

Roz Barr

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Essay, Online article

Interview with Annebella Pollen on the Typology of the Photobooth

2020

Annebella Pollen Francisco Moura Veiga

Francisco Moura Veiga on Interview with Annebella Pollen on the Typology of the Photobooth

Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Chratz & Quer. Sieben Frauenstadtrundgänge in Zürich de

1995

Verein Frauenstadtrundgang Zürich (editor)

Sonja Flury on Chratz & Quer

Book

Construction, Oral history

La Grande Arche fr

2016

Laurence Cossé

Hélène Solvay on La Grande Arche

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Space and Structure; High Rise

2001

Phyllis Lambert (editor)

Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats de

2018

Margarete Stokowski

Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat

X Marks the Spot

1996

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

Book

L’architettura necessaria di Laura Gallucci it

2015

Irene De Guttry (editor) Cristina Liquori (editor)

Maristella Casciato on Laura Gallucci

Researching Encounters

Article

House Works

2023

Emily Richardson

Drawing Matter

What Lies Beneath

2019

Sarah Handelman