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Year
Author
Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book

Lisbeth Sachs: Architektin, Forscherin, Publizistin de

2020
Rahel Hartmann Schweizer
Sonja Flury on Lisbeth Sachs
Cartha 2018: Building Identity
Online article

Barranca

2018
Erica Overmeer
Intersectional Discrimination Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism

2008
bell hooks
Feminism and Architecture
Book chapter
Women as architects

Parisian Foundations: Julia Morgan at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1896-1902

2022
Karen McNeill
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

On Cornices, Part I

2019
Emma Letizia Jones
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Lecture, Poetry
Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979
Agnes Martin
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article

Architecture and the Art of Memory

1980
Frances Yates
Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Book, Podcast
Domesticity

Gern modern? Wohnkonzepte für Berlin nach 1945 de

2022
Nicola von Albrecht
bodymind
Film, Lecture
Care, Shared space, Spectra

An Unstable and Fantastical Space of Absence

2016
Margaret Price
Zofia Hansen in Szumin
Book, Podcast
Domesticity

Dom jako forma otwarta : Szumin Hansenów polish

2014
Aleksandra Kedziorek (editor) Filip Springer
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Article
Gender

Only an Equitable Profession Can Design an Equitable Society

2020
Harriet Harriss
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book
Gender

Architecture from Without

1993
Diana Agrest
Copyright Bookshop recommends
Book
Construction

Pietro Nobile (1776-1854): Neo-Classicism between Technique and Beauty

2021
Taťána Petrasová
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

The Kurtna Kolkhoz: Architectural Representations of Soviet and Post-Soviet Society

2019
Sonia Sobrino Ralston
Fiction
Environment­alism, Feminism, Food

The Island of Sea Women de ko

2019
Lisa See
Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective
Article

Carolotopia

2020
Carla Frick-Cloupet
Natália Peťková on Carolotopia
Seen, Heard, Built
Book
Feminism

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

2018
Lauren Elkin
Book
Domesticity

Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments

1990
Elizabeth Collins Cromley
Annmarie Adams on Alone Together
Spazio Special Collection The Foyer. A Unique Narrative atelier
Fiction

Écrire fr

1993
Marguerite Duras
Mariana Siracusa on Écrire Marta Vives on Écrire
Book chapter
Ways of thinking

Theory and Philosophy of Architecture

2009
Lina Bo Bardi
Natália Peťková on Theory and Philosophy of Architecture
Seen, Heard, Built
Book

The Gender of Modernity

1995
Rita Felski
DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Feminism

La démocratie féministe: réinventer le pouvoir fr

2020
Marie-Cécile Naves
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Monograph
Care

Menschlich Wohnen-glücklich Leben-für alle de

1960
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
The Book Society List
Book
Women as architects

Building Critique : Architecture and its Discontents

2019
Gabu Heindl
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991
Elizabeth Wilson
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Representation

The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail

1994
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

Tradition, Modernity, Continuity and Critique

2021
Rebecca Siefert
On motherhood Loudreaders
Online article
Feminism, Gentleness, Motherhood, Utopia

Founding the Feminist Utopia

2018
Léone Drapeaud
Loudreaders on Founding the Feminist Utopia
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism
Poetry

Who Said It Was Simple

1973
Audre Lorde
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

Positionen de

1989
Aedes (editor)
Loudreaders
Book chapter
Gender, Spectra

Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin

2020
Ged Ribas Goody
Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile
Article
Writing

Why I Write

1976
Joan Didion
Jaehee Shin on Why I Write
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Cultivated land, Shared space

Black Country Allotment Society

2014
Susie Parr
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Domesticity

‘A citizen as well as a housewife’: New Spaces of Domesticity in 1930s London

2005
Elizabeth Darling Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Article

De l’éclectisme au doute (From Eclecticism to Doubt) fr

1929
Eileen Gray Jean Badovici
Charly Jolliet on De l’éclectisme au doute
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Learning

Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice

2015
Anne Dye Flora Samuel
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Domesticity, Feminism

A Revolution in the Woman’s Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen

1966
Susan R. Henderson Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Travel

Do Not Disturb!: Heavenly Honeymoon Retreats

2015
Manuela Roth
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Book chapter
Feminism

The Problem That Has No Name

1963
Betty Friedan
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Construction, Feminism

Premature Gratification and other Pleasures

2001
Katherine Shonfield
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

1997
Mira Schor
Book
Domesticity, Feminism

Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism

1988
Polly Wynn Allen
Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View
The Architecture of Accra
Online article
Construction, Shared space

Accra: Architecture and Construction in the 1950s

2020
Kuukuwa Manful Lois Quartey Elton Kwei
CMYK current titles/2022
Book

Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975

2020
Hannah Lewi Philip Goad
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book chapter, Catalogue
Gender

Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach. An Architect in the Building Industry of West Berlin

2017
Sabine Weissler Mary Pepchinski (editor)
Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners
Book
Vernacular

Architecture of Ridges and Valleys Myths and Realities of Himachal Pradesh

2023
Minakshi Jain I. P. Singh
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Cultivated land, Shared space

Ruralism. The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World

2016
Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Article
Domesticity, Life work, Women as architects

A Dwelling Manifesto for Rebuilding Japan de

2023
Kana Ueda Noemí Gómez Lobo
Nele Rickmann on A Dwelling Manifesto for Rebuilding Japan
spacegirls girltopia
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, Utopia

Woman on the Edge of Time

1976
Marge Piercy
The 11th Book : Episode 18
Book
Feminism

Fear of Flying

1973
Erica Jong