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Year
Author
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
Representation

Trees Push Back

2020
Sylvia Lavin
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book chapter, Catalogue
Gender

Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach. An Architect in the Building Industry of West Berlin

2017
Sabine Weissler Mary Pepchinski (editor)
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter

Kentucky Is My Fate

2009
bell hooks
Book, Fiction
Shared space

Metropolis de

1926
Thea von Harbou
Eliana Perotti on Metropolis
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Cultivated land, Shared space

Urbanizing the Alps Densification Strategies for High-Altitude Villages

2019
Fiona Pia
African State Architecture
Online article

The Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar temple, Seychelles

2020
Hangwei Li
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Book
Gender

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

2003
bell hooks
WAI Think Tank on Teaching Community
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Masterpieces: Bungalow Architecture + Design

2013
Michelle Galindo
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Writing Prize 2020: Hugh Casson’s ‘Diary’

2020
Laura Freeman
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Article
Gender

The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Architecture and Design: Three Case Studies

2019
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Frauen in der Geschichte der Gartenkultur de

2002
Heidrun Hubenthal Maria Spitthöver (editor)
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York

2021
Philippa Lewis
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Construction, Shared space

Accra: Architecture and Construction in the 1950s

2020
Kuukuwa Manful Lois Quartey Elton Kwei
Reading Room
Book
Gender

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

1989
Ines Lindner (editor)
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Lecture
Ways of thinking

Making Feminist Memories: Woman in Art: From Type to Personality by Helen Rosenau

2014
Griselda Pollock
Book, Essay
Capitalocene, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

2020
Arundhati Roy
Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Travel

Where Architects Sleep

2020
Sarah Miller
Researching Encounters
Manuscript
Critique

Shinohara’s Mushrooms: Conditional Life in Architectural Form

2021
Elsa Mäki
Online article
Feminism, Spectra

Architects Who Make a Fuss

2017
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Torsten Lange
Amy Perkins on Architects Who Make a Fuss
NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, For children

The River

1946
Rumer Godden
Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests
Book

Avant-garde as method

2020
Anna Bokov
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Book
Life work, Representation

Livio Vacchini. Disegni/Drawings/Drawings fr it

2017
Claudia Mion Giacomo Ortalli
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Writing

Waking Ideas from Their Sleep: An Introduction to Ficto-Critical Writing in and of Architecture

2020
Hélène Frichot Naomi Stead
Spazio Special Collection
Book
Critique

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

1997
Ada Louise Huxtable
Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Domesticity

Beyond Live/Work. The Architecture of Home- Based Work

2015
Frances Holliss
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Warum ich Architektin wurde de

2004
Grete Schütte-Lihotzky
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Book chapter
Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Revolution der Bauhaus-Frauen de

2023
Josenia Hervás y Heras
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Book
Women as architects

Frau Architekt: Over 100 years of women in architecture de

2017
Mary Pepchinski (editor) Christina Budde (editor) Wolfgang Voigt (editor) Peter Cachola Schmal (editor)
Helen Thomas on No more Frauenghetto, bitte
On motherhood Loudreaders
Online article
Feminism, Gentleness, Motherhood, Utopia

Founding the Feminist Utopia

2018
Léone Drapeaud
Loudreaders on Founding the Feminist Utopia
Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens
Online article
Feminism, Spectra, Women as architects

Dead Fish on the Beach: The Problem With “Women in Architecture”

2017
Khensani De Klerk
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Book
Care, Critique, Domesticity, Feminism

Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct 페미니즘 미술 읽기 : 한국 여성 미술가들의 저항과 탈주

2024
Hong-hee Kim
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Gender

Lecture Three : Cross-Cladding

2007
Katarina Bonnevier
ISBN+ – A bookshop selection
Book
Representation, Shared space, Travel

balaton off season – amikor a magyar tenger partja kiürül hungarian

2023
Bartha Dorka
Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature
Book
Environment­alism

Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia

2024
Lydia Kallipoliti
Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Lisbeth Sachs: Architektin, Forscherin, Publizistin de

2020
Rahel Hartmann Schweizer
Sonja Flury on Lisbeth Sachs
On motherhood
Book
Motherhood

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

2016
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (editor) China Martens (editor) Mai’a Williams (editor)
Book
Vernacular

Traditional Artistic Designs of Korea 한국전통의장자료 ko

1972
Byung-ok Chun
Jaehee Shin on Traditional Artistic Designs of Korea
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Keshi Ghat

2021
Amrutha Viswanath
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Novel

Little Women : Vier Schwestern Halten Zusammen de

1868
Louisa May Alcott
Book
Contact zones, Spectra

Pervert or Detective?

2025
Reba Maybury Lucy Mackenzie
Reba Maybury and Lucy Mackenzie on I Love Dick
Drawing Matter
Online article, Review
Representation

The facade is the window to the soul of architecture: Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018

2018
Helen Thomas
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
Reading Room
Book
Feminism

Frauen, Kunst, Geschichte: Zur Korrektur des herrschenden Blicks de

1985
Cordula Bischoff (editor)
Book

Emergency Design de

2011
Yana Milev
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto

2019
Elli Mosayebi
Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Book chapter
Women as architects

With, Or Without You: The Ghosts of Modern Architecture

2014
Beatriz Colomina
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)
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Online article
Feminism

In the Raw

2018
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book

Architecture at Dusk

2021
Barbara Zeman (editor)