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

Louise Blanchard Bethune

2021
Kelly Hayes McAlonie
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Domesticity

Zu Hause / At Home: Architecture for Rural Living de

2021
Sandra Hofmeister (editor)
Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales
Book
For children

Good Citizens

1938
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Book
Domesticity

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

1980
Gwendolyn Wright
Annmarie Adams on Moralism and the Model Home
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners
Book
Construction, Vernacular

Mehrangarh An Ensemble of Poetic Spaces

2022
Minakshi Jain Meghal Arya Kulbhushan Jain
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Jessie Brennan

2017
Olivia Horsfall Turner
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Writing

Piranese fr

2016
Jakuta Alikavazovic Simon de Dreuille
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Journal
Critique, Feminism, Gender, Ways of thinking

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

2012
Jackie Wang
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Feminism

Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

2018
Silvia Federici
Thinking & Writing Place
Article

The Ways in which We Write

2023
Jane Rendell
Researching Encounters
Blog post
Domesticity

Umbrella House e a imanência do espaço vazio pt

2023
Ana Ruepp
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Parity in History? Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Feminism

Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

2018
Hélène Frichot (editor) Catharina Gabrielsson (editor) Helen Runting (editor)
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)
Zofia Hansen in Szumin Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article
Women as architects

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

2020
Mimi Zeiger
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Article
Feminism, Shared space

Feminist theory and Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Public Space

1993
Seyla Benhabib
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

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

2015
Katharina Weresch
Reading Room
Book

Yvonne Rainer: Raum Körper Sprache de

2012
Barbara Engelbach (editor) Yilmaz Dziewior (editor)
Fiction

The Shoby Story

1990
Ursula K. Le Guin
Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Two Early Paintings with OMA

2021
Zoe Zenghelis
Book
Gender

Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen de

1932
Johanna Böhm
Despina Stratigakos on Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Conversations in Preparation
Book
Gender

African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender

1995
Labelle Prussin (editor)
Spazio Special Collection Parity in History? Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book
Travel, Writing

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

1993
Mary Louise Pratt
Book chapter
Contact zones, Shared space

Liberation-era Architecture in Ghana

2020
Janet Berry Hess
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Book
Ways of thinking

Keine Zeit verlieren de

2018
Ursula K. Le Guin
Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis  Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article
Environment­alism, Feminism

Women’s Work: An Eco-Feminist Approach to Environmental Design

2017
Claire Napawan Ellen Burke Sahoko Yui
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners Feminism and Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Women as architects

Women Architects and Modernism in India Narratives and Contemporary Practices

2017
Madhavi Desai
Mayyasah Akour on Women Architects and Modernism in India
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture
Online article
Gentleness, Women as architects

Who Needs the Top? An Ungentle Manifesto

2019
Gabrielle Esperdy
Sarah El Ouazzani on Who Needs the Top
Book, Monograph
Care, Shared space, Vernacular

Little Spaces : Kumiko Inui + ja

2014
Kumiko Inui
Meg Marumoto on Little Spaces : Kumiko Inui +
Book

Kapitalismus: Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie de

2020
Nancy Fraser Rahel Jaeggi
Tatjana Blaser on Kapitalismus: Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book, Fiction
Feminism

Werde, die du bist de

1988
Hedwig Dohm
spacegirls girltopia 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 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021 Fantastic refuge
Fiction
Feminism, Shared space, Utopia

Herland

1915
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Fiction
Women as architects

Blaupause de

2017
Theresia Enzensberger
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Online article
Feminism

Feminist Architecture: From A to Z

2018
Jane Rendell
ISBN+ – A bookshop selection
Book
Representation, Ways of thinking, Writing

What You See Is What You Think

202
Markéta Kinterová
On motherhood
Online article
Motherhood

The Mother Is Dead, Long Live (m)Othercare: Care as Alterity, an Introduction

2025
iLiana Fokianaki
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book chapter
Shared space

Invisibility Work? How starting from Dis/ability challenged Normative Social, Spatial and Material Practices

2018
Jos Boys
Book
Critique

Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger

1986
Ada Louise Huxtable
Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable
From Reading Zimbabwe
Book
Contact zones

A Town called Victoria or, The Rise and Fall of the Thatched House Hotel

1978
Katherine Sayce
Researching Encounters
Book
Domesticity

Spring Garden

2017
Tomoka Shibasaki
Reading Room
Book
Cultivated land, Domesticity, Environment­alism, Food

Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations: Textes d’Augusta Gillabert-Randin 1918-1940 fr

2005
Marthe Gosteli Peter Moser
Emilie Appercé on Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations
Reading Room Conversations in Preparation Fantastic refuge
Graphic novel

A City Inside

2016
Tillie Walden
Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside
ISBN+ – A bookshop selection
Book
Representation, Shared space, Travel

balaton off season – amikor a magyar tenger partja kiürül hungarian

2023
Bartha Dorka
Space as Matrix
Book
Life work

Social Practices

2019
Chris Kraus
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article
Writing

Réveil égyptien, identité et poétique dans les dessins d’Hassan Fathy fr

2017
Viola Bertini
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Gender

Untenrum frei de

2018
Margarete Stokowski
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Domesticity

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

2018
Emma Cheatle
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
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space, Utopia

Villages of Vision – A study of strange utopias

1975
Gillian Darley
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Where Are the Women Architects?

2016
Despina Stratigakos
Estelle Gagliardi on Where Are the Women Architects?
Book
Gender

Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals

2013
Lori Brown
Annmarie Adams on Contested Spaces