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Year
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Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

MoMoWo: Women: Architecture & Design Itineraries across Europe

2016
Sara Levi Sacerdotti (editor)
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Book, Fiction

White is for Witching

2009
Helen Oyeyemi
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book

Why Architects Matter – Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

2018
Flora Samuel
Disabling Environments
Book
Shared space

Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the Interwar Years

2019
Elaine Harwood
Parity in History? Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book
Oral history, Travel

Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822 and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823

1824
Maria Graham
Anne Hultzsch on Journal of a Residence in Chile Stefania Archilli on Residence in Chile Carolina Catarino Gomes on Residence in Chile Miranda Reynolds on Residence in Chile Laia Meier on Residence in Chile
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Representation

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

2010
Marie Corbin
Book
Shared space

Urban Design in the 20th Century A History

2021
Janina Gosseye Tom Avermaete
Book
Companion Text, Cultivated land

Geschichte der Gartenkunst de

1926
Marie-Luise Gothein
Marie-José Van Hee on Geschichte der Gartenkunst
Bauhaus Women
Book
Domesticity

Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

2014
T’ai Smith
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Marion Mahony Griffin

2021
Elizabeth Birmingham
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Article
Domesticity, Feminism, Women as architects

Die Hausfrauenrolle de

1978
Christiane Erlemann
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
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Warum ich Architektin wurde de

2004
Grete Schütte-Lihotzky
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Black + Architecture

2015
Sibylle Kramer
Reading Room
Book
Contact zones, Spectra

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

2019
Kathryn Yusoff
Book, Fiction
Shared space

Metropolis de

1926
Thea von Harbou
Eliana Perotti on Metropolis
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Aitchison / Prendergast

2016
Helen Thomas
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Essay
Domesticity, Food

Passages from Why I Became an Architect

1928
Grete Schütte-Lihotzky
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

1984
bell hooks
Book
Companion Text

L’immagine storiografica dell’architettura contemporanea, da Platz a Giedion it

1984
Maria Luisa Scalvini
Silvia Groaz on L’immagine storiografica dell’architettura contemporanea
Book
Ways of thinking

The Life of the Mind

1977
Hannah Arendt
Tatjana Blaser on The Life of the Mind
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article
Feminism

Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminism: Mamah Borthwick’s Letters to Ellen Kay

2002
Alice T. Friedman
Book
Women as architects

Architectural Inheritance and Evolution in India

2023
Apurva Bose Dutta
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Learning

Manor Lessons: Commons Revisited

2021
Amy Perkins (editor) Sarah Barth (editor) Augustin Clément (editor) Alexandros Fotakis (editor)
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Gender, Shared space

Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance: Cedric Price’s Fun Palace

2001
Mary Louise Lobsinger Sarah Williams Goldhagen (editor) Réjean Legault (editor)
Disabling Environments
Online article

Seizures and hot summers

2020
Nicola Swanborough
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Book chapter
Domesticity

Family Matters: The Schroeder House by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schroeder

1998
Alice T. Friedman Maristella Casciato
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Theodore Conrad and Harvey Wiley Corbett

2018
Jennifer Gray Irene Sunwoo
S AM Publications
Book

Maurice Braillard: Ein Schweizer Pionier der modernen Architektur de

1994
Ursula Paravicini
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Dissertation
Women as architects

Bauhaus- und Tessenow-Schülerinnen. Genderaspekte im Spannungsverhältnis von Tradition und Moderne de

2003
Corinna Isabel Bauer
African State Architecture
Online article

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020
Joy Rukanzakanza
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Magazine
Domesticity

Deep Spring Water 샘이깊은물 ko

1984
A tree with deep roots (editor)
Reading Room Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Men Explain Things to Me

2014
Rebecca Solnit
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book chapter
Gender, Shared space

Space and Status

1992
Daphne Spain
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Life work

Max Bill Global: An Artist Building Bridges

2021
Nina Zimmer (editor) Fabienne Eggelhöfer (editor)
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Women as architects

SHoP Architects: Out Of Practice

2012
Kimberly Holden Philip Nobel
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Cultivated land

Kiftsgate Court Gardens: Three Generations of Women Gardeners

2019
Vanessa Berridge
On motherhood Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loké WAI Architecture Think Tank
Book
Feminism, Motherhood

Women, Race & Class

1981
Angela Davis
WAI Think Tank on Women, Race & Class
Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments
Online article
Shared space

Lighting the way for women and girls

2021
Hoa Yang
From Reading Zimbabwe
Online article
Learning, Shared space

Fugitive Libraries

2019
Shannon Mattern
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

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

2015
Angela Dimitrakaki Lara Perry
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Parity in History? Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Feminism

Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

2018
Hélène Frichot (editor) Catharina Gabrielsson (editor) Helen Runting (editor)
Conversations in Preparation
Book

A Pictorial History of World Architecture chinese

1986
Luo Xiaowei 罗小未 Cai Wanying 蔡琬英
Yeshi Wang on A Pictorial History of World Architecture
Book, Fiction

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966
Jean Rhys
Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
Article
Care

Fourth Book : Images of Death 卷之四 : 喪 圖 ko

2021
Ryul Song
Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The Need for Small Blocks

1961
Jane Jacobs
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Capitalocene, Shared space

Outlaw Territories – Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

2016
Felicity D. Scott
in:dépendance at Furka Pass
Book, Diary
Life work

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

1010
Murasaki Shikibu Richard Bowring (translator)
Book
Life work

Powerhouse: The Life and Work of Architect Judith Chafee

2019
Kathryn McGuire Christopher Domin
Logan Amont on The Life and Work of Architect Judith Chafee
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Lutah Maria Riggs

2021
Irene Cheng