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Year
Author
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
Fiction
Environment­alism, Feminism, Food

The Island of Sea Women de ko

2019
Lisa See
Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective
A Book I Love
Novel
Contact zones, Cultivated land, Shared space, Ways of feeling

The Island of Missing Trees

2021
Elif Shafak
Article
Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985
Janet Wolff
Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse
Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)
Book
Capitalocene

The Intimacies Of Four Continents

2015
Lisa Lowe
Disabling Environments
Article
Spectra

The influence of ceiling height: The effect of priming on the type of processing that people use

2007
Joan Meyers-Levy
Bauhaus Women
Book chapter
Construction

The identity of Design as Intellectual Property

2009
T’ai Smith
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
Book, Online resource
Learning, Representation

The Hybrid Practitioner. Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture

2022
Caroline Voet (editor) Eireen Schreurs (editor) Helen Thomas (editor)
Emily Priest and Dylan Radcliffe Brown on The Hybrid Practitioner
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
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, Domesticity

The House on Mango Street

1984
Sandra Cisneros
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on The House on Mango Street
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The House in Good Taste

1914
Elsie de Wolfe
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The Honest House

1914
Ruby Ross Goodnow
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The Home of Man

1976
Barbara Ward
On motherhood ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Domesticity, Motherhood

The Home as a Workshop, The Housewife

1910
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article

The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design

2018
Alexandra Lange
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book, Fiction

The Heart Goes Last

2015
Margaret Atwood
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Fantastic refuge
Book
Gender, Shared space

The Hearing Trumpet

1976
Leonora Carrington Pablo Weisz Carrington (illustrator)
Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book
Capitalocene, Gender

The Haraway Reader

2003
Donna Haraway
Bauhaus Women
Book chapter
Construction

The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography

2014
T’ai Smith
Space as Matrix
Magazine
Writing

The Happy Hypocrite

2008
Maria Fusco (editor)
On motherhood Lillemors Frauenliteratur
Book, Fiction
Feminism, Motherhood

The Handmaid’s Tale

1985
Margaret Atwood
Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Book, Fiction

The Group

1963
Mary McCarthy
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Representation

The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail

1994
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
Covid Diary, January 2022
Book, Fiction

The Green Road

2015
Anne Enright
Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Madame ETH ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021) Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Book
Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

1981
Dolores Hayden
Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution
Book
Shared space

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

1998
Nancy Tomes
Annmarie Adams on The Gospel of Germs
Covid Diary, January 2022
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, Spectra

The Golden Notebook

1962
Doris Lessing
Loké New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art
Book, Fiction
Contact zones, Gentleness

The God of Small Things

1997
Arundhati Roy
Laura Evans and Hiyala Shafeeq on The God of Small Things
Book
Construction

The Glass State. The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris, 1981–1998

2003
Annette Fierro
Jiawei Wu on The Glass State
Covid Diary, January 2022
Book, Fiction

The Girls of Slender Means

1963
Muriel Spark
Youlhwadang Book Museum
Novel

The Girl From the Marsh Croft

1910
Selma Lagerlöf
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The Generators of Diversity

1961
Jane Jacobs
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Gender

The Gendered Republic

1988
Joan B. Landes
Seen, Heard, Built
Book

The Gender of Modernity

1995
Rita Felski
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Essay
Environment­alism, Feminism

The Gender and the Environment Debate: Lessons from India

1992
Bina Agarwal
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Food

The Gastronomical Me

2017
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
Feminism and Architecture Finnish Women Writing Curating Artek and the Aaltos
Book
Women as architects

The Fringe of A Profession: Women as Architects in Finland From the 1890s to the 1950s

1992
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen
Conversations in Preparation
Book
Ways of thinking

The Fountainhead

1943
Ayn Rand
Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead
Book

The Force of Non-Violence

2020
Judith Butler
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Women as architects

The First American Women Architects

2008
Sarah Allaback
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