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Year
Author
Book

The Architects Collaborative 1945-1965

1966
Sarah P. Harkness Walter Gropius
Bene Wahlbrink on Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration
Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9
Book

Purity and Danger

1966
Mary Douglas
Researching Encounters
Vernacular

The Roofs of Traditional Farm Houses in Japan

1966
Vlasta Winkelhöferová
Book
Shared space, Utopia

L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités: une anthologie fr

1965
Françoise Choay
Katia Frey on L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités
Manifesto
Feminism

No Manifesto

1965
Yvonne Rainer
FU Berlin to commemorate the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir
Book
Life work

Une mort très douce (A very easy death) fr

1964
Simone de Beauvoir
Mary Pepchinski on A Very Easy Death
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Book

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914

1964
Alison Adburgham
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

Centre for Urban Studies: London Aspects of Change

1964
Ruth Glass
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Book
Life work

La Force des choses (Force of Circumstance)

1963
Simone de Beauvoir
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
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Feminism

The Feminine Mystique

1963
Betty Friedan
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book, Fiction

The Group

1963
Mary McCarthy
Covid Diary, January 2022
Book, Fiction

The Girls of Slender Means

1963
Muriel Spark
On success
Poetry
Ways of thinking

The applicant

1963
Sylvia Plath
spacegirls girltopia
Book chapter
Utopia

My Own Utopia

1963
Elisabeth­ Mann Borgese
The Weather Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architekturtheorie (2020)
Book
Environment­alism

The Silent Spring

1962
Rachel Carson
Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter

The Need for Aged Buildings

1962
Jane Jacobs
Covid Diary, January 2022
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, Spectra

The Golden Notebook

1962
Doris Lessing
After 8 recommends
Novel
Feminism

One Thing I Know

1962
Pati Hill
Architekturtheorie (2020)
Book chapter
Shared space

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961
Jane Jacobs
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The Need for Small Blocks

1961
Jane Jacobs
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The Generators of Diversity

1961
Jane Jacobs
Book

Das dreißigste Jahr de

1961
Ingeborg Bachmann
Memories of the Women of Graubünden
Book
Travel

Vagabund im Morgenland de

1961
Helen Keiser
Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Shared space

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960
Jane Jacobs
Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities
FU Berlin to commemorate the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir
Book
Life work

La Force de l’âge (The Time of Life) fr

1960
Simone de Beauvoir
Mary Pepchinski on The Time of Life
Book
Companion Text, Food

I’ll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon

1960
Elizabeth David
Roz Barr on I’ll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Monograph
Care

Menschlich Wohnen-glücklich Leben-für alle de

1960
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Book
Domesticity, Feminism

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

1959
Philippa Tristram
Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View
Spazio Special Collection
Book
Cultivated land

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

1959
Marjorie Hope Nicolson
Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Ways of thinking

The Human Condition

1958
Hannah Arendt
Kenneth Frampton on The Human Condition
Reading Room
Fiction, Play

Der gute Gott von Manhattan de

1958
Ingeborg Bachmann
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America

1958
Helen Comstock
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article

Vienna and the Genius Loci

1958
Susanne Lang
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Monograph

Farbe, ein wichtiges Gestaltungsmittel in der Wohnung de

1958
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article

Bomarzo

1957
Susanne Lang
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Fiction

Wer die Nachtigall stört de

1957
Nelle Harper Lee
Spazio Special Collection
Book
Vernacular

Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture

1957
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article
Care, Utopia

Das Wohnen in der Stadt von morgen de

1957
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Article, Book chapter

But Today We Collect Ads

1956
Alison Smithson Peter Smithson
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article
Shared space

Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning

1955
Helen Rosenau
Madame ETH
Essay
Critique

Notes on “Camp”

1954
Susan Sontag
Paul Grieguszies Schäfer on Notes on “Camp”
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Monograph
Travel

Kleine Visite in Harvard und Berk[e]ley de

1954
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article
Travel

In Finnland beobachtet de

1954
Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Poetry

Die gestundete Zeit de

1953
Ingeborg Bachmann
Tatjana Blaser on Die gestundete Zeit
What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates
Article

The Ideal City: From Plato to Howard

1952
Susanne Lang
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book, Fiction
Companion Text, Life work

Mémoires d’Hadrien fr

1951
Marguerite Yourcenar
Asli Çiçek on Memoirs of Hadrian Adam Caruso on Memoirs of Hadrian
Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen
Book
Shared space

The Shelbourne Hotel

1951
Elizabeth Bowen
Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel
Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Essay
Travel

Die Straßen um Pisa danish de

1951
Karen Blixen
Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales
Book
Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951
Amabel Williams-Ellis