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Title
Year
Author
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Alice J. Hands

2021
Sarah Allaback
Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Parity in History? Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Travel

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

2014
Rebecca Solnit
Caroline Voet on Wanderlust: A History of Walking
On success
Poetry
Ways of thinking

Fame is a fickle food

1891
Emily Dickinson
Book
Travel

North Oxford

1992
Tanis Hinchcliffe
Annmarie Adams on North Oxford
Eureka! Touring Library
Book

Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Spaces

2016
Maria Sheherazade Giudici Pier Vittorio Aureli
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

2020
Mikki Kendall
Book, Fiction
Construction, Domesticity, Vernacular

Big Swiss

2023
Jen Beagin
Helen Thomas on Big Swiss
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article

Architectural Themes

1982
Frances Yates
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

Urbanism (The Academy of Urbanism)

2016
Sarah Jarvis David Rudlin Rob Thompson
Gentleness Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book, Poetry
Shared space, Travel, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking, Writing

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

2003
Lisa Robertson
Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
African State Architecture
Online article

Jerfix Studios in Accra

2020
Kuukuwa Manful
Cyberfeminism Index
Book

Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

2007
Lisa Nakamura
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice

2011
Linda Jewell (editor) Louise A. Mozingo (editor)
in:dépendance at Furka Pass
Book
Domesticity, Shared space

The Tale of Genji

1935
Murasaki Shikibu Andrew Waley (translator)
Simona Mele, Julius Schwartz, Luca Bronca on The Tale of Genji
Bauhaus Women Architekturtheorie (2020)
Article
Gender

Frauenfragen im Wohnungswesen de

1950
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The Home of Man

1976
Barbara Ward
Book
For children

Moon Sherbet ko

2018
Hee-na Baek (illustrator)
Hyeri Lee on Cloud Bread, Moon Sherbet, Magic Candies, etc.
Loudreaders
Book
Oral history

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

2010
Araceli Tinajero
Loudreaders on El Lector
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Startha Éagsula: Grafton Architects on Paulo Mendes da Rocha

2020
Yvonne Farrell Shelley McNamara
Thinking & Writing Place
Article
Critique, Feminism

Site-Reading Writing Quaterly. Feministische Figurationen in Zeiten der ökologischen Krise und rassistischer Ungerechtigkeit de

2021
Jane Rendell
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
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Environment­alism

Built On Water: Floating Architecture + Design

2014
Lisa Baker
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’

2020
Laura Freeman
Book, Fiction

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966
Jean Rhys
Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

20th Century Decorating, Architecture and Gardens

1980
Mary Jane Pool
Book
Cultivated land

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

2015
Lesley Poling-Kempes
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on Ladies of the Canyons
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article, Essay

De l’émotion dans un art positif. Esquisse d’une définition de la nature de l’émotion architecturale fr

2011
Judith Rotbart Laurent Salomon
Space as Matrix
Magazine
Writing

The Happy Hypocrite

2008
Maria Fusco (editor)
Book
Women as architects

Making Space A history of New Zealand women in architecture

2022
Elizabeth Cox (editor)
Julie Willis on A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture
The Weather
Book
Environment­alism

Light polish

2024
Małgorzata Kuciewicz Simone De Iacobis Centrala
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Domesticity

New Designs for Living: Domestic Equipment of Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret, 1928-29

2003
Mary McLeod (editor)
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book

Die verlorenen Töchter de

2019
Silke Redolfi
Space as Matrix
Book
Ways of feeling

The Dream and the Word

2012
Susan Hiller
Spazio Special Collection
Book
Capitalocene

Baku. Oil and Urbanism

2017
Eve Blau Ivan Rupnik
The Book Society List Hochparterre Bücher recommends
Book
Cultivated land

On the Necessity of Gardening. An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation

2021
Laurie Cluitmans (editor)
Finnish Women Writing
Book, Catalogue
Life work, Women as architects

Wivi Lönn 1872-1966 finnish

2022
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen (editor) Susanna Aaltonen (editor) Hanna Tyvelä (editor) Anna-Leena Lehto (editor)
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Aitchison / Prendergast

2016
Helen Thomas
Zofia Hansen in Szumin Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article

Breaking Ground book on buildings by women ‘is both needed and problematic’

2020
Mimi Zeiger
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Wir: Fotografinnen am Frauen*streik de

2020
Yoshiko Kusano (editor) Francesca Palazzi (editor) Caroline Minjolle (editor)
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies
Article, Catalogue
Care, Domesticity, Representation, Women as architects

The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House 조선조시대주택의 장식적의장 ko

1977
Byung-ok Chun
Gayoun Jang on The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book

The Battle For Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect

2016
Marwa al-Sabouni
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book, Translation
Feminism

Verteidigung der Rechte der Frauen de

1978
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

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

2019
Diletta Trinari Simone Marcolin
African State Architecture
Online article

Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna Village project, Egypt

2021
Awut Atak
Manifesto
Feminism

No Manifesto

1965
Yvonne Rainer
On success ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2023 ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Capitalocene

The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

2010
Isabelle Graw
Anna Rothstein on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Dimitri Bleichenbacher on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Laura Oberholzer on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Léa De Piccoli on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Domesticity

Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

2018
Emma Cheatle
Book

Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display

2000
Carla Yanni
Annmarie Adams on Nature’s Museums
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Gender

Art, Education and Gender: The Shaping of Female Ambition

2015
Gill Hopper
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