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Year
Author
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Essay
Travel

Die Straßen um Pisa danish de

1951
Karen Blixen
Book
Learning

Revolution! Deutschsprachige Kulturen im Umbruch 1918–1968 de

2023
Teresa Cañadas García (editor) Carmen Gómez García (editor) Linda Maeding (editor)
Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen
Book
Shared space

The Shelbourne Hotel

1951
Elizabeth Bowen
Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel
Bauhaus Women
Book
Women as architects

Entfernt: Frauen des Bauhauses während der NS-Zeit – Verfolgung und Exil de

Inge Hansen-Schaberg Wolfgang Thöner Adriane Feustel
Book
Construction, Women as architects

Kate Chapman. Adobe builder in 1930s Santa Fe

2012
Catherine Colby
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on Kate Chapman
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Article
Gender

Bildbetrachtung: Die Architektin Elsa Burckhardt-Blum de

2019
Eliana Perotti
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Santiago Calatrava: Drawing, Building, Reflecting

2018
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Santiago Calatrava
Finnish Women Writing
Book chapter
Shared space

Cities as Texts: Urban Practices Represented or Forgotten in Art History

1999
A K Nevanlinna
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

101 Hotel Lobbies, Bars & Restaurants

2013
Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk Peter Joehnk
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article
Feminism

Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminism: Mamah Borthwick’s Letters to Ellen Kay

2002
Alice T. Friedman
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Gender, Shared space

Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance: Cedric Price’s Fun Palace

2001
Mary Louise Lobsinger Sarah Williams Goldhagen (editor) Réjean Legault (editor)
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book
Gender

Modern Women: Modern Artists at the Museum of Modern Art

2010
Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)
Space as Matrix
Book
Capitalocene

But we Loved Her

2013
Ursula Mayer
Magazine
Care, Feminism, Women as architects

SOFA 4 : Architecting as a Woman – Insecurity, Imperfection, and (In)safety ko

2023
Society of Feminist Architects
Soyeong Park on SOFA magazine
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book

L’architetto fuori di se it

1982
Marta Lonzi
Raffaella Poletti on L’architetto fuori di sé
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book

Chelsea Girls

2019
Eileen Myles
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Article
Gender

Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize

2012
Hilde Heynen
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Book
Women as architects

Frau Architekt: Over 100 years of women in architecture de

2017
Mary Pepchinski (editor) Christina Budde (editor) Wolfgang Voigt (editor) Peter Cachola Schmal (editor)
Helen Thomas on No more Frauenghetto, bitte
The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
Book
Feminism

Pionierinnen und Pioniere für Menschenrechte, Freiheit und Frieden de

1979
Renate Möhrmann Berta Rahm
Helen Thomas on Pionierinnen und Pioniere
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Construction, Feminism

Premature Gratification and other Pleasures

2001
Katherine Shonfield
Loudreaders
Poetry
Capitalocene, Contact zones

While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country)

2010
Raquel Salas Rivera
Loudreaders on While They Sleep
NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water
Book, Fiction
Contact zones

Swing Time

2016
Zadie Smith
Albert Jiménez Rodríquez on Swing Time Elena Gallo and Tahnee Rutter on Swing Time
Book

Kicked a Building Lately?

1976
Ada Louise Huxtable
Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable
After 8 recommends
Book
Gender

The Shabbiness of Beauty

2018
Moyra Davey Peter Hujar
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Loké Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book chapter
Gender, Women as architects

Room at the Top, Sexism and the Star System in Architecture

1989
Denise Scott Brown Ellen Perry Berkeley (editor)
Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top May Bi on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture
Article
Shared space

What would a non-sexist city be like?

1980
Dolores Hayden
Sasha Beketov on What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like?
Book, Online resource

Participation

2006
Claire Bishop (editor)
Researching Encounters
Article
Domesticity

Kyu-Ikeda-Tei

2024
Yuki Sumner
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Perry Kulper

2017
Sophia Banou
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel

2021
Annmarie Adams Tanya Southcott
bodymind
Book chapter
Spectra

On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability

2001
Catherine Prendergast
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Environment­alism, Feminism

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

1990
Val Plumwood
After 8 recommends Madame ETH
Book
Ways of thinking

Other People’s Clothes

2021
Calla Henkel
After 8 recommends
Essay
Ways of thinking

The Falling

2022
Marie Lund
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Women’s Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960

2003
Brenda Martin (editor) Penny Sparke (editor)
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Open Wide/Wide Open

2021
Angharad Davies
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
Matéria Prima – A bookshop selection
Book
Feminism, Gender

Juice

2024
Stephanie Haerdle
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Article, Essay
Writing

La Ville cohérente fr

2013
Berengère de Contenson
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Travel

Secret Places: The Architect’s Guide To Distinctive Buildings In And Around Copenhagen

2020
Marie-Louise Høstbo
Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Book

The Pleasures of Architecture

1924
Amabel Williams-Ellis Clough Williams-Ellis
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats de

2018
Margarete Stokowski
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book

Die verlorenen Töchter de

2019
Silke Redolfi
Autobiography
Companion Text

The Cost of Living

2018
Deborah Levy
Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate
Cartha 2018: Building Identity
Online article
Domesticity, Representation

Building Identity – Conen Sigl Architekten

2018
Maria Conen Raoul Sigl
Book

The Architects Collaborative 1945-1965

1966
Sarah P. Harkness Walter Gropius
Bene Wahlbrink on Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Ways of thinking

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

2015
Angela Davis
Film
Contact zones

Sea of Itami Jun 이타미준의 바다 ko

2019
Dawoon Jung
Jaehee Shin on the Sea of Jun Itami
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Online article
Contact zones

Decolonization is not a Metaphor

2012
Eve Tuck K. Wayne Yang
WAI Think Tank on Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Life work

Maria Bottero – Forays beyond the Modern: The Architecture of Umberto Riva fr it

2021
Claudia Mion (editor)