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Submit a citation to Women Writing Architecture
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

The Staircase: The Architecture Of Ascent

2013
Martine Diot Oscar Tusquets Blanca
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism
Poetry
Intersectional Feminism

Who Said It Was Simple

1973
Audre Lorde
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing

2021
Tessa Baird
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Italo Rota: Projects, Works, Visions 1997-2007

2008
Valeria Alebbi Luca Molinari
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

Alternative Histories: Conen Sigl Architekten on Giuseppe Chiantarelli

2019
Maria Conen
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Article

Männliche und weibliche Raumwahrnehmung in der Architektur: über Unterschiede beim Entwerfen als Ergebnis von Sozialisationsprozessen de

1990
Katharina Weresch
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

Writing Prize 2020: Held Fast: SITE’s Ghost Parking Lot

2020
Anna Renken
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner (1986)

2020
Esther McCoy
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Gender

Das Geschlecht, das nicht eins ist de

1979
Luce Irigaray
Hochparterre Bücher recommends
Book
Colonial Situations

Swissness Applied. Learning from New Glarus

2021
Nicole McIntosh Jonathan Louie
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

Mother of all drawings

2021
Deepiga Kameswaran
Book, Poetry

Space of Sincerity 진심의 공간 ko

2017
Hyunjin Kim 김현진
Jaehee Shin on Space of Sincerity
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
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Ways of thinking

Dirty Theory – Troubling Architecture

2019
Hélène Frichot
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Writing

Port Sulphur Highway 23, LA ; Maurepas Swamp, LA ; Lake Ponchartrain, LA ; Scarsdale-gas Station Higway 10, LA ; Maurepas Swamp, LA ; Taft, LA

2016
Elsa Bres
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

Permanence

2017
Elizabeth Hatz
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article

Architecture and the French Revolution: Jean Jacque Lequeu

1949
Helen Rosenau
Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures
Online article

Mainstreet is Almost Alright: Repeat to Delete

2020
Lena Appel
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
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

Startha Éagsula: Elizabeth Hatz on Frank Lloyd Wright

2020
Elizabeth Hatz
Book

Orlando

1928
Virginia Woolf
Tatjana Blaser on Orlando
Finnish Women Writing
Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Book
Women as architects

Aino and Alvar Aalto: A Shared Journey: Interpretations of an Everyday Modernism

2007
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen
Book
Monography

A Life of Creation

2003
Charlotte Perriand
Asli Çiçek on A Life of Creation
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Where We Work

2021
Ana Martins
Drawing Matter
Fiction, Online article
Drawing

Behind the Lines 14

2020
Philippa Lewis
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Article
Travel

Notes on Yucatan

1879
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Feminism

The Problem That Has No Name

1963
Betty Friedan
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Villa Design

2020
Agata Toromanoff
Travel

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

2019
Han Ji-Eun
Jaehee Shin on Overseas Travelling and Writing as a Woman in Colonial Chosŏn
African State Architecture
Online article

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

2020
Irene Addo
Loudreaders
Book chapter
Gender

Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin

2020
Ged Ribas Goody
Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Book chapter
Domesticity

Domestic Reform and European Modern Architecture: Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby

2010
Mary McLeod Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Writing

Privacy and Publicity – Modern Architecture as Mass Media

1994
Beatriz Colomina
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter

Narrative Time: the question of the Gates of Hell

1977
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Frauen bauen: Architektinnen in Südtirol de it

2013
Helga Becker
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
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism, Shared space

Terra Incognita?: Der Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich de

2013
Shelley Berlowitz (editor) Elisabeth Joris (editor) Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli (editor)
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Book chapter
Shared space

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961
Jane Jacobs
Loudreaders
Fiction
Capitalocene

Parable of the Sower

1993
Octavia Butler
Loudreaders on Parable of the Sower
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book

Countersexual Manifesto

2018
Paul B. Preciado
Book
Domesticity

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

1980
Gwendolyn Wright
Annmarie Adams on Moralism and the Model Home
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The Decoration of Houses

1898
Edith Wharton Ogden Codman
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Writing

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

2016
Lucile Pujol Maxime Jaume
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Construction, Feminism

Premature Gratification and other Pleasures

2001
Katherine Shonfield
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Eleanor Raymond

2021
Doris Cole
Essay
For children

Beatrix Potter’s Places

1967
Alison Smithson
Jane Hall on Beatrix Potter’s Places
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Domesticity, Feminism

A Revolution in the Woman’s Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen

1966
Susan R. Henderson Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Warum ich Architektin wurde de

2004
Grete Schütte-Lihotzky
Drawing Matter
Online article
Drawing

On Cornices, Part I

2019
Emma Letizia Jones
Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access
Book
Shared space

What can a body do?

2020
Sara Hendren
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Dekolonialer Feminismus de

2020
Françoise Vergès
Cartha 2018: Building Identity
Online article

The Shape of Doubt

2018
Marina Montresor Stephan Lando
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Environment­alism

Built On Water: Floating Architecture + Design

2014
Lisa Baker
African State Architecture
Online article

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020
Joy Rukanzakanza
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Architecture: The Whole Story

2014
Denna Jones Richard Rogers
Drawing Matter
Fiction, Online article
Drawing

Behind the Lines 5

2018
Philippa Lewis
Eureka! Touring Library
Book

Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism

2019
Katherine Kuenzli
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Capitalocene

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

2014
Keller Easterling
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Book chapter
Domesticity

Modernism’s Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction

2020
Victoria Rosner
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective

1977
Susana Torre (editor)
Reading Room
Book
Gender

Blick-Wechsel: Konstruktionen von Männlickeit und Weiblichkeit in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte de

1989
Ines Lindner (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Zum Judischen Erbe in Der Wiener Architektur: Der Beitrag Judischer Architektinnen Am Wiener Baugeschehen 1868-1938 de

2016
Ursula Prokop
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Frauen*streik de

2019
Vorwärts (editor, publisher)
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Louise Blanchard Bethune

2021
Kelly Hayes McAlonie
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book chapter
Gender

Would they still call me a Diva?

2019
Jane Hall
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

Living Well, the NYTimes Book of Home Design and Decoration

1981
Carrie Donovan
Book
Domesticity, Monography

Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France

2018
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Annmarie Adams on Me and My House
Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens
Online article
Feminism, Intersectional Feminism

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

2017
Marie-Louise Richards
Drawing Matter
Fiction, Online article
Drawing

Behind the Lines 9

2019
Philippa Lewis
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article

Why Nicolai Ouroussoff is not Good Enough

2010
Alexandra Lange
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

On stage!: Women in Landscape Architecture and Planning de

2016
Barbara Zibell (editor) Doris Damyanovic (editor) Eva Álvarez (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Women as architects

Eileen Gray

2000
Caroline Constant
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Fiction
Gender

Orlando: A Biography

1928
Virginia Woolf
Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Article
Gender, Women as architects

By Women for Women: Modernism, Architecture and Gender in Building the New Jewish Society in Mandatory Palestine

2016
Sigal Davidi
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book, Fiction

The Group

1963
Mary McCarthy
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Fiction, Film
Monography

Female Human Animal

2018
Chloe Aridjis Josh Appignanesi
Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis 
Article
Capitalocene, Colonial Situations

For still possible cities: a politics of failure for the politically depressed

2018
Natalie Osborne
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Construction

Material Innovation: Architecture

2014
Leslie Sherr Andrew H. Dent
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Shared space

Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, and the Civic Realm

2014
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Book

Requiem für Fanny Goldmann de

1978
Ingeborg Bachmann