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S AM Publications
Book

S AM 06 – Balkanology de

2008
Francesca Ferguson
Article

Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?

2013
Hito Steyerl
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book
Oral history

Frauenleben in Graubünden de

1998
Rita Cathomas-Bearth Marianne Fischbacher Ursula Jecklin-Schmid
Silke Redolfi on Frauenleben in Graubünden
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

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

2015
Katharina Weresch
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism, Shared space

Terra Incognita?: Der Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich de

2013
Shelley Berlowitz (editor) Elisabeth Joris (editor) Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli (editor)
Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel
Article
Domesticity

Caring for Parents: Modern dwellings for elderly German Jewish immigrants in Mandatory Palestine

2020
Sigal Davidi
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture

1973
Doris Cole
Why Make Books
Picture Book
Care, Companion Text, Contact zones

Landscape of Defence – Postcards from the Boderland

2025
Liene Jakobsone (editor) Ilka Ruby (editor)
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)
S AM Publications
Book

S AM 03 – Pancho Guedes: Vertreter einer anderen Moderne de pt

2007
Francesca Ferguson
Disabling Environments
Book
Spectra

Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity

1998
Simi Linton
Article
Feminism, Utopia

ΣπΩ, or How Science Fiction Became a Women’s Playground¹ ΣπΩ 혹은, SF는 어떻게 여자들의 놀이터가 되었나 ko

2022
Ryul Song
Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine
After 8 recommends
Book
Gender

The Shabbiness of Beauty

2018
Moyra Davey Peter Hujar
Cyberfeminism Index A Book I Love Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Gender

Testo Junkie

2013
Paul B. Preciado
Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie
Book
Writing

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities

2012
Alexandra Lange Jeremy Lange
Annmarie Adams on Writing About Architecture
Building in Stone Today Why Make Books
Anthology, Book, Essay
Critique, Ways of thinking, Women as architects

Architecture Words 12 – Stones Against Diamonds

2013
Lina Bo Bardi
Building in Stone Today
Article
Critique

Things. Material Turn, Transnational Turn

2017
Jennifer Roberts
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Environment­alism

Built On Water: Floating Architecture + Design

2014
Lisa Baker
Urban Design Group Library
Book
For children, Shared space

Designing Cities with Children and Young People. Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks

2017
Kate Bishop Linda Corkery
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Trees Move In

2020
Sylvia Lavin
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Ways of thinking

Das Geschlecht des Wissens: Frauen denken die Wissenschaft neu de

1994
Sandra Harding
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Women as architects

Dialogue and Translation – Grafton Architects

2014
Shelley McNamara Yvonne Farrell
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
Expanding Agency
Book
Women as architects

Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California

2021
Harriet Harriss Naomi House
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Feminism

Thinking about Feminism in European History

2000
Karen M. Offen
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners
Book
Vernacular

The Fort of Nagaur

1993
Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
Online article
Women as architects

Marion Mahony Griffin

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

Yalla, Feminismus! de

2019
Reyhan Şahin
Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests
Book

The Living Museums – Franco Albini – BBPR – Lina Bo Bardi – Carlo Scarpa

2021
Orietta Lanzarini (editor)
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Anthology, Poetry
Writing

Bouquet 朝鮮女流漢詩選集 꽃다발 ko

1944
Kim Samuidang Heo Nanseolheon I Maechang Kim Eok (translator) et al.
Loké
Domesticity

Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement

2003
Nathalie du Pasquier (illustrator) Leonard Koren
indiana collective’s reading list
Book
Feminism, Friendship, Gender

Revolution der Verbundenheit de

2024
Franziska Schutzbach
Fiction

The Shoby Story

1990
Ursula K. Le Guin
Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Reading Room Conversations in Preparation Fantastic refuge
Graphic novel

A City Inside

2016
Tillie Walden
Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

On stage!: Women in Landscape Architecture and Planning de

2016
Barbara Zibell (editor) Doris Damyanovic (editor) Eva Álvarez (editor)
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book
Travel

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

1796
Mary Wollstonecraft
Book
Vernacular

Vernacular Architecture of West Africa: A World in Dwelling

2011
Trinh T. Minh-ha Jean-Paul Bourdier
On motherhood
Book
Motherhood

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

2016
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (editor) China Martens (editor) Mai’a Williams (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Lecture
Gender, Women as architects

Parity Talks II: Learning from Institutional Practices and Working Tools

2017
Parity Group (editor)
Reading Room
Fiction, Play

Der gute Gott von Manhattan de

1958
Ingeborg Bachmann
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture

2001
Maggie Toy (editor)
Livraria Megafauna – A bookshop selection Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Women as architects

Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat

2020
Catherine Otondo Jose Esparza Chong Cuy (editor)
Isabela Ferrari Rey Carneiro on Megafauna Bookshop
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
Can Writing Be Activism? ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Manifesto, Manuscript
Care, Critique, Domesticity, Feminism, Shared space, Ways of thinking, Writing

Manifesto for Maintenance Art

1969
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art
Spazio Special Collection
Book
Gender

Postmodernism and the Engendering of Marcel Duchamp

1994
Amelia Jones
Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature
Book
Cultivated land, Environment­alism

Notions of Nature and a Model for Managed Urban Wilds

2014
Jill Desimini
Jiyeon Moon on Notions of Nature and a Model for Managed Urban Wilds
Article
Writing

Why I Write

1976
Joan Didion
Jaehee Shin on Why I Write
Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature
Book
Cultivated land

Terrain Vague : Interstices at the Edge of the Pale

2013
Manuela Mariani (editor) Patrick Barron (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Gender

Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London

2001
Jane Rendell
NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, For children

The River

1946
Rumer Godden