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Year
Author
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Seen, Heard, Built Space as Matrix
Book

Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

1987
Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative
Elizabeth Darling on Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book chapter
Gender, Shared space

Into the Labyrinth

1991
Elizabeth Wilson
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book, Fiction
Feminism

Werde, die du bist de

1988
Hedwig Dohm
Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Capitalocene

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

2021
Beatriz Colomina Mark Wigley
Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Book chapter
Women as architects

Aalto and the Tutelary Goddess

2004
Sarah Menin
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

Estate Regeneration

2020
Manisha Patel Brendan Kilpatrick
Reading Room Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020 Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book
Feminism

The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

2018
Audre Lorde
Soo Jin Kim on The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
Disabling Environments
Book chapter
Environment­alism

Spatial Entities of the Future: Design through the lens of Neuroscience

2021
Fiona Zisch
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek

2019
Iris Moon
Book

Brasil, Nordeste, Mulheres Arquitetas: migrações, regionalismo, gênero pt

2022
Guilah Naslavsky (editor) Andréa Gáti (editor)
Guilah Naslavsky on Brasil, Nordeste, Mulheres Arquitetas
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Ways of feeling

Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice

2005
Pauline Oliveros
Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Book chapter
For children, Women as architects

Modern childhood landscapes: Aino Aalto’s engagement in the international experiment of the modern nursery school

2015
Michelle Laboy
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Ray Kaiser Eames

2021
Pat Kirkham
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article, Essay
Writing

Signification Immergée fr

2011
Zoé Salvaire
Online article
Feminism

What would feminist data visualization look like?

2017
Catherine D’Ignazio
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
Book
Capitalocene, Shared space, Utopia

GRM. Brainfuck. de

2019
Sibylle Berg
Tatjana Blaser on GRM. Brainfuck.
S AM Publications
Monograph
Life work

Peter Heman 1919-2001: Architektur Photographie de

2003
Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape

2013
Susan Herrington
Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis 
Book
Capitalocene, Environment­alism

Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

2012
Sumita Singha
Parity in History?
Book
Contact zones

Behind the Scenes

1868
Elizabeth Keckley
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book
Feminism

Die Frau des Direktors: Annelise Leu, die Schweizer Hotelpionierin de

2017
Nina Zumthor
Carla Capaul on Annelise Leu, die Schweizer Hotelpionierin
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Article
Travel

Territorium de

1996
Alison Smithson Peter Smithson
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Gender, Women as architects

Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference

2013
Dörte Kuhlmann
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Article
Gender, Women as architects

By Women for Women: Modernism, Architecture and Gender in Building the New Jewish Society in Mandatory Palestine

2016
Sigal Davidi
Archeoastronomy and Collective Rituals
Film, Manuscript
Environment­alism, Vernacular

Figure in the Landscape: Jacquetta Hawkes and Barbara Hepworth

1953
Jacquetta Hawkes
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners
Film
Shared space, Vernacular

The Story of Madras… Chennai

2005
Sujatha Shankar
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Article
Contact zones

Plains and Pampa: Decolonizing “America”

2021
Ana María León
Manifesto
Feminism

Change, My Problem is a Problem of a Women

1979
Ewa Partum
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Monograph
Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Eine Bauhaus-Architektin in der BRD: Wera Meyer-Wadeck de

2017
Josenia Hervás y Heras
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Capitalocene, Environment­alism

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism

2015
Isabelle Stengers
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Oral history, Shared space

The Evolution of Adedainkpo, Old Accra

2021
Akotowaa Ofori Lawrencia Amartey
Cartha 2018: Building Identity
Online article

When Venturi met a Bolivian Alchemist

2018
Sabrina Morreale Lorenzo Perri
Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments
Online article
Gender, Shared space

Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life

2016
Yasminah Beebeejaun
Essay, Novel

Messer, Zungen de

2022
Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner
Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures
Online article

Know your DestinE – or how to clone your Planet

2020
State of the Hearts
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book
Life work

Geoffrey Bawa Drawing from the Archives

2023
Shayari de Silva (editor)
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Domesticity, Gender

Negotiating domesticity: spatial productions of gender in modern architecture

1995
Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)
Essay, Online article

The Outsider

2022
Hélène Binet
Expanding Agency
Book
Contact zones

Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa

2006
Janet Berry Hess
S AM Publications
Book

S AM 08 – Hier und die Welt / Ici et le Monde de

2008
Francesca Ferguson Valérie Disdier
Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature
Book
Environment­alism

Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia

2024
Lydia Kallipoliti
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Contact zones, Feminism, Vernacular

Woman, Native, Other : Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism de

1989
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Book
Friendship

Storia del nuovo cognome it

2012
Elena Ferrante
Tatjana Blaser on Storia del nuovo cognome
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Domestication and the Permutation of Interruption

2019
Dara Birnbaum
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Construction

Material Innovation: Architecture

2014
Leslie Sherr Andrew H. Dent
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Dekolonialer Feminismus de

2020
Françoise Vergès
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
indiana collective’s reading list A Book I Love
Autobiography
Companion Text

Real Estate

2021
Deborah Levy
Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate
On success
Poetry
Ways of thinking

Success is counted sweetest

1891
Emily Dickinson