Women Writing Architecture

Personal Collections

Collections
Citations
Collections
Annotations
Forum
Information
Glossary
Collaborators
Annotations
Types
Glossary Terms
Title
Year
Author
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Auf Frauen bauen: Architektur aus weiblicher Sicht de

1999
Anita Zieher
Disabling Environments
Book
Feminism, Spectra

The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability

1997
Susan Wendell
Space as Matrix
Book
Shared space

After the Night

2013
Everyone Agrees
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Shatwell DrawingScape

2018
Ana Araujo
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Frauen im Laufgitter: Offene Worte zur Stellung der Frau de

1993
Iris von Roten
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book chapter, Essay
Gender

Big Jugs

1991
Jennifer Bloomer
Finnish Women Writing Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Article, Journal
Women as architects

Designing a Room of One’s Own: The Architect Aino Marsio-Aalto and Artek

1997
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Mediterranean Living: Stylish And Elegant Or Close To Nature

2015
Manuela Roth
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951

2013
Inge Schaefer Horton
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Life work

Richard Serra, a Translation

1986
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
Spazio Special Collection
Book
Critique

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

1997
Ada Louise Huxtable
Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Manuscript

Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World

1970
Sylvia Wynter
WAI Think Tank on Black Metamorphosis
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The Home of Man

1976
Barbara Ward
The Architecture of Accra
Book
Domesticity

Landlords and lodgers : socio-spatial organization in an Accra community

2008
Deborah Pellow
On success Can Writing Be Activism? Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Essay
Feminism, Friendship

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

1988
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book, Catalogue

Faces and Spaces: 40 Years Aedes Architecture Forum

2020
Kristin Feireiss Hans-Jurgen Commerell
On motherhood
Book
Life work, Motherhood

Baggage: My Childhood

2004
Janet Street-Porter
Ellis Woodman on Baggage
After 8 recommends
Monograph
Contact zones, Ways of thinking

Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And

2021
Lorraine O’Grady
Reading Room
Book chapter
Feminism

Die Schweizer Frau in Kunstgewerbe und bildender Kunst de

1928
Doris Gäumann-Wild Maria Weese
Disabling Environments
Book
Care

The Cancer Journals

2006
Audre Lorde
Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures
Online article

The Soft Infrastructure of Data Exhaust at RAND

2020
Kylie King Brett Zehner
Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments
Online article
Gender, Shared space, Spectra

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

2020
Jess Myers
On motherhood
Book
Companion Text, Feminism, Motherhood

The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Chicago Public Housing

2004
Roberta M. Feldman Susan Stall
Rebecca Siefert on The Dignity of Resistance
Book

Design Justice

2020
Sasha Costanza-Chock
New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art
Book, Fiction
Contact zones

Jamaica Inn

1936
Daphne du Maurier
Laura Evans and Drucilla Boakye on Jamaica Inn
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

Architectural Experiments

2019
Séverine Marguin Henrike Rabe
S AM Publications
Book

Maurice Braillard: Ein Schweizer Pionier der modernen Architektur de

1994
Ursula Paravicini
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Martha Schwartz: Grafische Landschaften de

2004
Martha Schwartz
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)
Researching Encounters
Blog post
Representation

Fronts and Faces

2022
Lera Samovich
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Travel

Contact Zone

2019
Claire Lindsay
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book

The Turn of the Century: A Reader about Architecture in Europe 1990-2020

2021
Louisa Hutton Matthias Sauerbruch
Seen, Heard, Built
Book
Feminism

Bananas, beaches and bases : making feminist sense of international politics

2014
Cynthia H. Enloe
spacegirls girltopia
Online article
Utopia, Women as architects

The Artistic Architect danish

2025
Mia Frykholm
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Gender, Shared space

Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism

2017
Nicole Kalms
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

On Cornices, Part I

2019
Emma Letizia Jones
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Journal
Critique, Feminism, Gender, Ways of thinking

Against Innocence : Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety

2012
Jackie Wang
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Nelle Elizabeth Peters

2021
Sherry Piland
From Reading Zimbabwe
Book

Zimbabwe: Art, Symbol and Meaning

2020
Gillian Atherstone
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article, Fiction

Solid Objects

1920
Virginia Woolf
African State Architecture
Online article

The Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar temple, Seychelles

2020
Hangwei Li
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Fiction
Domesticity

Spunk

1925
Zora Neale Hurston
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Writing

Balancing Rocks

2016
Bridget Polk
Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book
Construction, Women as architects

Die drei Leben des Saffa-Hauses de

2006
Beate Schnitter (editor) Dorothee Huber (editor) Felix Fuchs (editor)
Sonja Flury on Die drei Leben des Saffa-Hauses
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
NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, For children

The River

1946
Rumer Godden
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Domesticity

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

1998
Alice T. Friedman
Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice

2011
Linda Jewell (editor) Louise A. Mozingo (editor)
spacegirls girltopia Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loudreaders
Fiction
Feminism

The Dispossessed

1974
Ursula K. Le Guin
Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article

Interview mit Bauhäuslern de

1928
Wera Meyer-Waldeck