Women Writing Architecture

Collections are groups of citations drawn from syllabi, libraries, conversations, and events.

Annotations are citations suggested by individuals accompanied by their thoughts, opinions and research.

Types

Glossary Terms

Finnish Women Writing

Cities as Texts: Urban Practices Represented or Forgotten in Art History

1999

A K Nevanlinna

Finnish Women Writing

Women in the History of Finnish Art

1990

Riitta Nikula

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Care, Environmentalism, Spectra

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

2004

Vinciane Despret

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Oral history, Ways of feeling

Dear Conchi

2016

Lucia Berlin

Anastasia Zharova on Dear Conchi

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

Contact Zone

2019

Claire Lindsay

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

Columbo Feb. 28, 1810

1813

Maria Graham

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

The Female Gaze: Encounters in the Zenana

1998

Indira Ghose

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

The Gendered Republic

1988

Joan B. Landes

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque

1995

Elizabeth A. Bohls

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Writing

Waking Ideas from Their Sleep: An Introduction to Ficto-Critical Writing in and of Architecture

2020

Hélène Frichot Naomi Stead

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

Women and Revolution

1988

Joan B. Landes

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

Between Landscape and Confinement: Situating the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

2017

Emma Cheatle

Elena Rieger on Between the Landscape and Confinement Zofia Krupa on Between the Landscape and Confinement

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, and the Civic Realm

2014

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe

2003

Helen Hills

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

Gender

2019

Dúnlaith Bird

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

Thinking about Feminism in European History

2000

Karen M. Offen

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

About Canons and Culture Wars

1999

Griselda Pollock

Im Gespräch: Annemarie Burckhardt und Beate Schitter

Life work, Oral history

Annemarie Burckhardt in conversation with Li Tavor and Regula Schweizer de

2015

Annemarie Burckhardt

Im Gespräch: Annemarie Burckhardt und Beate Schitter

Life work, Oral history

Beate Schnitter in conversation with Elina Müller and Hanna Kuby de

2015

Beate Schnitter

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

For children, Women as architects

Modern childhood landscapes: Aino Aalto’s engagement in the international experiment of the modern nursery school

2015

Michelle Laboy

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Women as architects

Aalto and the Tutelary Goddess

2004

Sarah Menin

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Women as architects

With, Or Without You: The Ghosts of Modern Architecture

2014

Beatriz Colomina

Reading Room

Book, Book chapter, Online resource

Critique, Cultivated land, Domesticity, Environmentalism, Feminism, Food, Writing

Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations: Textes d’Augusta Gillabert-Randin 1918-1940 fr

2005

Marthe Gosteli Peter Moser

Emilie Appercé on Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations

Reading Room

Feminism

Die Schweizer Frau in Kunstgewerbe und bildender Kunst de

1928

Doris Gäumann-Wild Maria Weese

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Loudreaders

Book chapter, Essay, Fiction

Feminism, Gender

Bloodchild

1995

Octavia E Butler

Loudreaders on Bloodchild

Loudreaders

Gender, Spectra

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

2020

Ged Ribas Goody

Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile

Ways of thinking

Theory and Philosophy of Architecture

2009

Lina Bo Bardi

Natália Peťková on Theory and Philosophy of Architecture

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

Environmentalism, Feminism

Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism

1997

Dorceta Taylor

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

Feminism, Ways of thinking

Contingent foundations: Feminism and the question of ‘postmodernism’

1994

Judith Butler

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Need for Aged Buildings

1962

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Space and Structure; High Rise

2001

Phyllis Lambert (editor)

Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Narrative Time: the question of the Gates of Hell

1977

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Richard Serra, a Translation

1986

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Gender, Shared space

Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance: Cedric Price’s Fun Palace

2001

Mary Louise Lobsinger Sarah Williams Goldhagen (editor) Réjean Legault (editor)

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Kentucky Is My Fate

2009

bell hooks

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Generators of Diversity

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Need for Small Blocks

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2023 ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

2010

Isabelle Graw

Anna Rothstein on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Dimitri Bleichenbacher on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Laura Oberholzer on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Léa De Piccoli on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Grids

1986

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Construction, Feminism

Premature Gratification and other Pleasures

2001

Katherine Shonfield

On motherhood ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Domesticity, Motherhood

The Home as a Workshop, The Housewife

1910

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy

1990

Nancy Fraser

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Capitalocene, Care, Gender

Staying with the Trouble

2016

Donna Haraway Michael M. J. Fischer (editor) Joseph Patricck Dumit (editor)

Grégoire Bridel and Remy Carron on Staying with the Trouble Seounju Kim on Staying with the Trouble

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Fiction

The Debutante

2017

Leonora Carrington

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Fiction

The Sisters

2017

Leonora Carrington

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Essay

Being Modern Together: Le Corbusier’s Villa Stein–de Monzie

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Amaza’s Azurest: Modern Architecture and the ‘New Negro’ Woman

2019

Jacqueline Taylor

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Modernism’s Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction

2020

Victoria Rosner