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Representation

The Mars Group’s Plan for London, 1933-1944

2021
Mirjam Kupferschmid
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Domesticity

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

1998
Alice T. Friedman
Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House
Manifesto
Care, Critique, Friendship, Learning, Shared space, Spectra, Ways of thinking

A Glued Manifesto ko

2023
Ryul Song Christian Schweitzer
Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine
Online article
Care

Care Ethics

2024
Maureen Sander-Staudt
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Life work

Dreifuss ist unser Name: Eine Politikerin, eine Familie, ein Land de

2002
Isabella Maria Fischli
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book

Die verlorenen Töchter de

2019
Silke Redolfi
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Politics of the Image

2018
Maria Sheherazade Giudici
After 8 recommends
Fiction

Panorama

2022
Merle Kröger
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Travel

Resort Design

2012
Michelle Galindo
Novel

Feuerlilie de

2024
Gianna Olinda Cadonau
Lucia Rocchelli on Feuerlilie
Loudreaders
Book
Contact zones

Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization

2020
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Loudreaders on Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
The Architecture of Accra
Book
Contact zones, Shared space

African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

2015
Ingrid Schröder (editor) Julia Jamrozik (editor) Manuel Herz (editor) Hans Focketyn (editor)
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Domesticity

Domesticity at War

2007
Beatriz Colomina
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Capitalocene, Shared space

Ghana-based Limbo Accra transforms urban wastelands into cultural hubs

2025
Almas Sadique
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism
Poetry

Who Said It Was Simple

1973
Audre Lorde
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking The Archive

2017
Jennifer Gray Barry Bergdoll
African State Architecture
Online article

Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

2020
Tondi Koschke
Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis 
Essay
Capitalocene, Environment­alism

To undo nature; on refusal as return

2020
AM Kanngieser
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Essay, Novel
Feminism, Representation

Na Hye-seok Works ko

2017
Hye-Seok Na
Conversations in Preparation
Book
Ways of thinking

The Fountainhead

1943
Ayn Rand
Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Domesticity

Tropical Living: Dream Houses At Exotic Places

2014
Manuela Roth
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Trees Push Back

2020
Sylvia Lavin
Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte
Book
Utopia, Ways of thinking

The Origins of Totalitarianism

1951
Hannah Arendt
Book
Critique

Autenticità e progetto it

2006
Marta Lonzi Richard Sadler (translator)
Raffaella Poletti on Autenticità e progetto
Parity in History?
Article
Contact zones, Spectra

Choosing the Margin as a Space for Radical Openness

1989
bell hooks
Copyright Bookshop recommends Hochparterre Bücher recommends
Book
Life work

The Urban Fact A Reference book on Aldo Rossi

2021
Jelena Pančevac (editor) Kersten Geers (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective

1977
Susana Torre (editor)
Fantastic refuge
Book, Fiction
Feminism, For children, Oral history, Vernacular

The Bloody Chamber

1979
Angela Carter
Madame ETH
Film
Feminism

El Planeta Film Companion

2021
Amalia Ulman
Niels Olsen on El Planeta Film Companion
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Blog post
Contact zones

Looking for the “Absent” Women in Mufassal Towns of Colonial Bengal

2021
Tania Sengupta
The Architecture of Accra
Article
Shared space

My kind of town. Accra.

2005
Lesley Lokko
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Report
Women as architects

Women architects

2016
Women Architects Committee RIBA (editor)
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Article
Construction

Wood or Metal?

1929
Charlotte Perriand
Book

The Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture

1990
Leslie Maitland
Annmarie Adams on The Queen Anne Revival Style
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

Women, Culture & Politics

1990
Angela Davis
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book

Architektinnenhistorie: zur Geschichte der Architektinnen und Designerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert: eine erste Zusammenstellung de

1987
Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes Sektion Bundesrepublik (editor)
Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales
Book
Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Expanding Agency
Catalogue
Construction

If You Want to Build a House

1946
Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler
S AM Publications
Catalogue

Basler Projekte II. Bilder und Legenden de

2000
Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture

2019
Rebecca Williamson
On motherhood
Book
Critique, Feminism, Motherhood

Sputiamo su Hegel it

1978
Carla Lonzi
Annamaria Prandi on Sputiamo su Hegel
Cyberfeminism Index
Book

Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices

2002
Maria Fernandez Faith Wilding Michelle M. Wright
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Capitalocene

The Architecture of Closed Worlds Or, What Is the Power of Shit?

2018
Lydia Kallipoliti
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter

2021
Meredith Gaglio
African State Architecture
Online article

Old Bank building, Guinea Bissau

2020
Ana Djú Isa Lopes da Costa
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

AL_A: V&A Exhibition Road Quarter

2018
Amanda Levete
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Signage Design

2011
Michelle Galindo
Drawing Matter
Fiction, Online article
Representation

Behind the Lines 2

2017
Philippa Lewis

Rimon hebrew

1922
Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer (editor)
Naomi Caruso on Rimon
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Two Early Paintings with OMA

2021
Zoe Zenghelis