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Title
Year
Author
Book, Fiction
Ways of thinking, Writing

The Dictionary of Lost Words

2020
Pip Williams
Naomi Caruso on The Dictionary of Lost Words
in:dépendance at Furka Pass
Book, Diary
Life work

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

1010
Murasaki Shikibu Richard Bowring (translator)
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

1970
Shulamith Firestone
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Destruction of the City of Homs

2017
Deanna Petherbridge
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The Decorative Arts in France, 1900 – 1942

1990
Suzanne Tise Yvonne Brunhammer
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The Decoration of Houses

1898
Edith Wharton Ogden Codman
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Book chapter, Fiction
For children

The Debutante

2017
Leonora Carrington
Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Capitalocene

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

1980
Carolyn Merchant
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
Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments
Article
Gender, Shared space

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

2019
Caroline Criado Perez
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Lecture, Poetry
Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979
Agnes Martin
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book
Feminism

The Creation of Patriarchy

1986
Gerda Lerner
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
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

2019
Charly Blödel
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Domesticity

The Contemporary House

2018
Ellie Stathaki Jonathan Bell
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism WAI Architecture Think Tank
Book
Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977
The Combahee River Collective
WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement
Book
For children

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890
Jean M. Auel
Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991
Elizabeth Wilson
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The City as Resource. Text and Projects 2005- 2014

2014
Myriam Perret (editor) Tim Rieniets (editor) Nicolas Kretschmann (editor) Chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse (editor)
Eureka! Touring Library
Book
Contact zones

The Citadel: A Trilogy

2022
Mame-Diarra Niang
Researching Encounters
Book
Domesticity

The Choreography of Everyday Life

2022
Annie-B Parson
Finnish Women Writing
Online article
Women as architects

The Changing Careers of Women Architects

2017
Pirkko-Liisa Schulman
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article
Feminism, Shared space

The Case for Safe Spaces

2016
Anne-Laure White
Can Writing Be Activism? Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Essay
Feminism, Friendship

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

1988
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?
Disabling Environments
Book
Care

The Cancer Journals

2006
Audre Lorde
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies
Article
Domesticity

The Bottom Line Labourers of the Outsourcing Industry: A Study of the Domestic Labour of Married Women in Seoul ko

2023
Mihyun Jang
bodymind
Article
Spectra

The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain

2015
Margaret Price
bodymind
Online article
Spectra

The Bodymind Problem

2015
Allison Harper Hitt
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Book chapter
Care, Environment­alism, Spectra

The Body We Care for: Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis

2004
Vinciane Despret
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Black Drawings of Marie-José van Hee

2016
Helen Thomas
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Fiction, Poetry

The Bell Jar

1966
Sylvia Plath
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism, Gender

The Beauty Myth

2002
Naomi Wolf
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Book
Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814
Julia Pardoe
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Lecture, Monograph
Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

The Bauhaus Women Architects: Dicker, Meyer-Waldeck and Wilke

2022
Josenia Hervás y Heras
Novel
Travel, Writing

The Baudelaire Fractal

2020
Lisa Robertson
Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book

The Battle For Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect

2016
Marwa al-Sabouni
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Fiction
Feminism

The Awakening

1899
Kate Chopin
African State Architecture
Online article

The Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar temple, Seychelles

2020
Hangwei Li
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Online article
Capitalocene

The Artistic Mode of Revolution

2012
Martha Rosler
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Book
Domesticity, Oral history

The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork

2012
Kirsty Bell
Writing Memory
Book
Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966
Frances Yates
Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The Art of Building a Garden City. Designing new communities for the 21st Century

2017
Kate Henderson Katy Lock Hugh Ellis
Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales
Book
Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951
Amabel Williams-Ellis
On motherhood Madame ETH
Book
Motherhood, Spectra

The Argonauts

2015
Maggie Nelson
Tatjana Blaser on The Argonauts
Article

The Archival Multitude

2013
Ruanne Abou-Rahme Basel Abbas
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture
Book
Capitalocene

The Architecture of Closed Worlds Or, What Is the Power of Shit?

2018
Lydia Kallipoliti
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Representation

The Architectural Drawing Course: The Hand Drawing Techniques Every Architect Should Know

2017
Mo Zell
Book

The Architects Collaborative 1945-1965

1966
Sarah P. Harkness Walter Gropius
Bene Wahlbrink on Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration
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)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Gender, Women as architects

The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice

1996
Francesca Hughes (editor)
Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice