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Year
Author
Drawing Matter
Online article, Review
Representation

Freestanding: Sigurd Lewerentz

2018
Helen Thomas
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Feminism, Ways of thinking

Raising the Roof: Women Architects Who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling

2021
Agata Toromanoff
Book
Food

Dining Tables and Edo Food Culture in Ukiyo-e ja

2014
Ayano Hayashi
Hyeri Lee on Dining Tables and Edo Food Culture in Ukiyo-e
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book, Translation
Feminism

Verteidigung der Rechte der Frauen de

1978
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Book
Shared space

A women’s Berlin: Building the modern city

2008
Despina Stratigakos
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Gender

Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II

1996
Joan Ockman Diana Agrest (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor) Patricia Conway (editor)
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Conjunction and Incongruity

2018
Polly Gould
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Article
Domesticity

Housing the Single Woman: The Frankfurt Experiment

2009
Susan R. Henderson
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

Performative Urbanism. Generating and Designing Urban Space

2015
Sophie Wolfrum (editor) Nikolai Frhr. v. Brandis (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi

2017
Mary Norman Woods
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Diary
Travel

Travel Journal

1707
Elizabeth Burnet
Article
Shared space

Paris ville free fr

2022
Soline Nivet
Finnish Women Writing
Catalogue
Women as architects

Arkkitehteja. Architectan 40-vuotisnäyttely/Architects. Architecta’s 40-year anniversary exhibition finnish

1982
Marja Helenius (editor)
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

Hymn to Progress: Pier Luigi Nervi’s Burgo Paper Mill

2019
Diletta Trinari Simone Marcolin
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Writing Prize 2020: Domestic Space, Registered

2020
Laura Bonnell
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Monography

A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd

2013
Catherine Burke
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Book

Vision of the Temple

1979
Helen Rosenau
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article, Fiction

Solid Objects

1920
Virginia Woolf
Disabling Environments
Online resource, Report
Capitalocene, Care, Environment­alism

Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

2018
Sonya Ayeb-Karlsson et. al.
Book
Domesticity

The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity

2004
Judy Giles
Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Georgia Louise Harris Brown

2021
Anat Falbel
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino

2020
Emma Letizia Jones
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

Completing Our Streets

2013
Barbara McCann
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book chapter
Gender

Bad Press

1996
Elizabeth Diller
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Online article
Feminism, Gender

Maso and Miso in the Land of Men’s Rights

2019
Élisabeth Lebovici Giovanna Zapperi
Eureka! Touring Library
Book
Contact zones

The Citadel: A Trilogy

2022
Mame-Diarra Niang
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Alternative Histories: Oda Pälmke Architektin on Archizoom

2019
Oda Pälmke
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Daria’s Aria

2020
Sarah Handelman
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Fiction
Domesticity

Spunk

1925
Zora Neale Hurston
Reading Room
Fiction, Play

Der gute Gott von Manhattan de

1958
Ingeborg Bachmann
African State Architecture
Online article

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020
Joy Rukanzakanza
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book

Violence by Design: Resisting Carceral Logic for Architects and Designers

2020
The FUNAMBULIST (editor) Spectra Studio (editor) After Hours (editor)
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Representation

Grids

1986
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat
Book chapter

X Marks the Spot

1996
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
After 8 recommends
Book
Ways of feeling

Now I Know, Daylight: Responses to Untitled No 1 (1981) by Agnes Martin

2021
Vanessa Walters Wilder Alison Donna Marcus Katherine Franco Natalie Stypa
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Construction

Material Innovation: Architecture

2014
Leslie Sherr Andrew H. Dent
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Fiction
Feminism

Freie Geister de

1974
Ursula K. Le Guin
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article

Building Sisterhood: How Feminists Sought to Make Architecture a Truly Collective Endeavor

2019
Mimi Zeiger
Loké Madame ETH
Book
Monography, 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
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article
Construction

Wood or Metal?

1929
Charlotte Perriand
Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens
Article, Essay
Feminism, Gender

The architect as genius: feminism and the aesthetics of exclusion

1991
Christine Battersby
Memories of the Women of Graubünden The Author Speaks
Book, Fiction
Feminism, Monography

Anna Göldin. Letzte Hexe de

1982
Eveline Hasler
Expanding Agency
Book
Construction, Contact zones

Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910

2022
Holly Shaffer
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Article
Domesticity, Spectra

From the Margins to the Center: Urban housing for single Jewish women in pre-state Israel

2019
Sigal Davidi
After 8 recommends Madame ETH
Book
Ways of thinking

Edith Heath: Philosophies

2019
Jennifer Volland Chris Marino
Book
Spectra

Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto

2023
Simon(e) von Saarloos
Shen He on texts by Simon(e) von Saarloos
Researching Encounters
Article
Representation

Inhabiting Pictures: On Luisa Lambri’s Artistic Practice

2018
Simona Ferrari
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

1970
Shulamith Firestone
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Book
Ways of thinking

Keine Zeit verlieren de

2018
Ursula K. Le Guin