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Year
Author
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
Reading Room
Essay
Critique, Feminism, Oral history

The Problem of Speaking For Others

1992
Linda Martín Alcoff
Emilie Appercé on The Problem of Speaking For Others
Book
Writing

The Printed and the Built: Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century

2018
Mari Hvattum (editor) Anne Hultzsch (editor)
Emma Letizia Jones on The Printed and the Built
Feminism and Architecture
Book chapter, Online article
Spectra

The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage

2016
Gail Dubrow
Space as Matrix
Book
Shared space

The Power of Place

1997
Dolores Hayden
Emilie Appercé on The Power of Place
Gentleness
Book

The Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

2018
Anne Dufourmantelle Vincent Sallé (translator) Katherine Payne (translator)
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Politics of the Image

2018
Maria Sheherazade Giudici
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Ways of feeling

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening

2018
Salomé Voegelin
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
Thinking & Writing Place
Article
Feminism

The Personal is Political

1970
Carol Hanisch
Book
Domesticity

The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity

2004
Judy Giles
Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb
Loké
Article
Capitalocene, Shared space

The Pandemic is a Portal

2020
Arundhati Roy
Erandi de Silva on Pandemic is a Portal Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi
Essay, Online article

The Outsider

2022
Hélène Binet
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies
Article, Catalogue
Care, Domesticity, Representation, Women as architects

The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House 조선조시대주택의 장식적의장 ko

1977
Byung-ok Chun
Gayoun Jang on The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Poetry
Domesticity, Representation, Travel

The Orchid Door

1935
Joan Grigsby (translator) Lilian Miller (illustrator)
Blog post
Spectra

The Non-Monogamy Letters

2020
Simon(e) von Saarloos Kim TallBear Whess Harman (illustrator)
Shen He on texts by Simon(e) von Saarloos
The Book Society List Reading Room Conversations in Preparation
Catalogue
Domesticity, Environment­alism, Feminism, Food, For children, Gender, Oral history, Shared space, Ways of thinking

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

1973
Kirsten Grimstad (editor) Susan Renni (editor)
Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Critique

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design

2021
Fleur Watson
Disabling Environments
Article
Shared space, Spectra, Ways of thinking

The Neuroethics of Architecture

2022
Judy Illes Camille Y Huang
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

The Need for Aged Buildings

1962
Jane Jacobs
African State Architecture
Online article

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020
Joy Rukanzakanza
African State Architecture
Online article

The Nation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

2020
Marie Gibert
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

1850
Sojourner Truth
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Novel

The Naked Tree ko

1976
Park Wansuh
Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature A Book I Love ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Anthology, Book
Capitalocene, Ways of thinking

The Mushroom at the End of the World

2015
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Cristina Fusco on The Mushroom at the End of the World
in:dépendance at Furka Pass
Book chapter
Representation, Writing

The Multifaceted World of Japanese Narrative Art: An Introduction

2021
Trinh Khanh
On motherhood
Online article
Motherhood

The Mother Is Dead, Long Live (m)Othercare: Care as Alterity, an Introduction

2025
iLiana Fokianaki
The Book Society List
Book, Diary, Essay
Feminism

The Monumental Misrememberings

2013
Mimi Tempestt
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9
Book
Care, Domesticity

The Modern Kitchen – Birth and Other Stories 근대부엌의 탄생과 이면 ko

2020
Younjung Do
Pilgu Chang on The Modern Kitchen – Birth and Other Stories
Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Online article
Gender

The Mediated Plant

2019
Teresa Castro
Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant
Reading Room Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020 Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book
Feminism

The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

2018
Audre Lorde
Soo Jin Kim on The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

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

2021
Mirjam Kupferschmid
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Maquette

2017
Roz Barr
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Domesticity

The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Homes

2015
Judith Flanders
Book
Cultivated land, Ways of thinking

The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society

1997
Lucy R. Lippard
Mariana Siracusa on The Lure of the Local
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Fiction

The Lost Word

1907
Evelyn Underhill
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Shared space

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016
Olivia Laing
Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests
Book

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

2021
Orietta Lanzarini (editor)
The Weather A Book I Love Madame ETH
Book
Companion Text, Travel, Writing

The Living Mountain

1977
Nan Shepherd
Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain
Book
Ways of thinking

The Life of the Mind

1977
Hannah Arendt
Tatjana Blaser on The Life of the Mind
Loké Madame ETH
Book
Life work, Women as architects

The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

1998
Minnette de Silva
Erandi de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Shayari de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect
Book chapter
Gender, Shared space

The Lesbian Flâneur

1995
Sally Munt
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Fiction
Feminism, Gender

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969
Ursula K. Le Guin
Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023
Book
Shared space

The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 : Voices from the Revolution

2022
Mona Harb (editor)
Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen
Book
Contact zones

The Last September

1929
Elizabeth Bowen
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Women as architects

The Lady Architects: Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy, 1893-1937

1990
Doris Cole Karen Cord Taylor
African State Architecture
Online article

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

2020
Irene Addo
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

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

2019
Sonia Sobrino Ralston
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
Book chapter
Shared space

The Kitchen of Praxagora – Turning the Private and Public Inside Out

2017
Elin Strand Ruin