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Book, Fiction
Construction, Life work, Women as architects

L’architettrice it

2019
Melania G. Mazzucco
Maristella Casciato on l’architettrice Eliana Perotti on L’architettrice
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Frauen verändern ihre Stadt selbstorganisierte Projekte der sozialen und ökologischen Stadterneuerung: vom Frauenstadthaus bis zur Umplanung einer Grosssiedlung de

1993
Brigitte Karhoff
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

After All

1935
Elsie de Wolfe
S AM Publications
Catalogue

Junge Basler Architekturbüros I-III de

1999
Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus
Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis 
Book
Capitalocene, Environment­alism

Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

2012
Sumita Singha
S AM Publications
Book

S AM 06 – Balkanology de

2008
Francesca Ferguson
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Domesticity, Feminism

Feminist Politics and Domestic Life

1981
Dolores Hayden
bodymind
Article
Spectra

“Her Pronouns Wax and Wane”: Psychosocial Disability, Autobiography, and Counter-Diagnosis

2009
Margaret Price
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Five Centuries of Women and Gardens: 1590s-1990s

2000
Sue Bennett
Book
Care, Construction, Environment­alism, Learning, Representation, Vernacular

Trockenmauern : Grundlagen, Bauanleitung, Bedeutung de

2014
Marianne Hassenstein Christine Loriol (editor) Stiftung Umwelteinsatz Schweiz
Selmar Binder and Jaehee Shin on Dry Stone Walls
Reading Room
Book
Gender

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

1989
Ines Lindner (editor)
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Beverly Ann Willis

2021
Wanda Bubriski
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book chapter
Environment­alism, Feminism

Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism

1997
Dorceta Taylor
Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)
Essay

Can the Subaltern Speak?

1988
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak?
Book
Domesticity

House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe

1999
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant (editor) Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga (editor)
Annmarie Adams on House Life
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Article
Shared space

Nationalstraßen und Landschaftsgestaltung de

1991
Flora Ruchat-Roncati
Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book
Construction, Domesticity, Feminism, Representation, Shared space, Women as architects

Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung de

1946
Berta Rahm
Emilie Appercé on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung Sonja Flury on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung
Conversations in Preparation
Book, Fiction
Companion Text, For children

A Little Princess

1905
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Liza Fior on A Little Princess
Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023
Book
Contact zones

Social Urbanism : Reframing Spatial Design : Discourses from Latin America

2020
María Bellalta (editor)
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book
Feminism

Schleier vor Indiens Frauengemächern de

1935
Frieda Hauswirth
Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests
Book
Construction

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects

2015
Miriam Delaney Anne Gorman
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism

2005
Joan Wallach Scott
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Life work

Byoung Cho

2014
Soon Chun Cho Bong-Ryul Kim
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Aitchison / Prendergast

2016
Helen Thomas
The Weather
Book
Environment­alism

Wind polish

2024
Małgorzata Kuciewicz Simone De Iacobis Centrala
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Architecture: A Woman’s Profession de

2011
Tanja Kullack (editor)
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Shared space

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016
Olivia Laing
Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Gender, Spectra

Simians, Cyborgs and Women

1991
Donna Haraway
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Architecture, Civilization, Gender: Residential Building, the Civilizing Process of Dwelling Practices and Changes

2015
Katharina Weresch
Feminism and Architecture
Book chapter
Feminism

On the Inside: Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries

2003
Abigail Van Slyck
Abigail MacKenzie on Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries Erica Vinson on Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries
S AM Publications
Monograph
Life work

Peter Heman 1919-2001: Architektur Photographie de

2003
Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus
Article
Shared space

Paris ville free fr

2022
Soline Nivet
Eureka! Touring Library
Book
Shared space

Designing Shougang, or the story of a section

2022
Camilla Forina Michele Bonino Eduardo Bruno Alessandro Armando Giovanni Durbiano
Book
Life work

Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History

2020
Anne Massey
Bianca Felicori on Women in Design
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Book
Travel

AS in DS: An Eye on the Road

1983
Alison Smithson
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Environment­alism, Feminism

Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature

1997
Karen Warren (editor)
Disabling Environments
Book
Spectra, Ways of thinking

Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors

2020
Franziska Hartung et. al.
Eureka! Touring Library
Book
Life work

Peter Märkli de

2017
Pamela Johnston (editor)
Book, Essay
Ways of thinking

The Architect as Worker : Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

2015
Peggy Deamer (editor)
Ji Min An on The Architect as Worker
Expanding Agency
Book
Women as architects

Modern Woman – Architect czech

2022
Helena Huber-Dudová
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Women as architects

The First American Women Architects

2008
Sarah Allaback
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Environment­alism, Ways of thinking

Dirty Theory : Troubling Architecture

2019
Hélène Frichot
Elisabeth Gellein on Dirty Theory : Troubling Architecture
bodymind
Online article
Spectra, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

Our Body and Mind are One

2014
Helen Payne
Book

Belonging: A Culture of Place

2008
bell hooks
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Soziale Verortung der Geschlechter de

2001
Gudrun-Axeli Knapp (editor) Angelika Wetterer (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Floras Schwestern: Gärten und Frauen de

2018
Annemarie Bucher
Seen, Heard, Built
Book
Feminism

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

2022
Maria Mies
Book chapter
Ways of thinking

Theory and Philosophy of Architecture

2009
Lina Bo Bardi
Natália Peťková on Theory and Philosophy of Architecture
Loké
Book
Contact zones, Travel, Vernacular

Africa Adorned

1984
Angela Fisher
Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens
Online article
Feminism, Women as architects

Why Architects Need Feminism

2012
Despina Stratigakos