Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

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

Family Matters: The Schroeder House by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schroeder

1998

Alice T. Friedman Maristella Casciato

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Domesticity, Spectra

The Uncanny Architect: Fears of Lesbian Builders and Deviant Homes in Modern Germany

2005

Despina Stratigakos

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II

1996

Joan Ockman Diana Agrest (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor) Patricia Conway (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space

1996

Esther da Costa Meyer Patricia Conway (editor) Diana Agrest (editor) Joan Ockman (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Pop Off: Reply to Kenneth Frampton

1984

Denise Scott Brown

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Learning from Pop

1984

Denise Scott Brown

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article, Book chapter

But Today We Collect Ads

1956

Alison Smithson Peter Smithson

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Feminism

Everyday and ‘Other’ Spaces

1996

Mary McLeod Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Undressing Architecture: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity

1994

Mary McLeod Deborah Fausch (editor) Paulette Singley (editor) Zvi Efrat (editor) Rodophe El-Khoury (editor)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

‘A citizen as well as a housewife’: New Spaces of Domesticity in 1930s London

2005

Elizabeth Darling Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

New Designs for Living: Domestic Equipment of Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret, 1928-29

2003

Mary McLeod (editor)

Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Battle Lines: E. 1027

1996

Beatriz Colomina Diana Agrest (editor) Patricia Conway (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor)

Isabel Cano on Battle Lines: E.1027

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Domesticity, Feminism

A Revolution in the Woman’s Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen

1966

Susan R. Henderson Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Feminism

The Problem That Has No Name

1963

Betty Friedan

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

Introduction: Modernism and Domestic Life in the Machine Age

2020

Victoria Rosner

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

Domestic Reform and European Modern Architecture: Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby

2010

Mary McLeod Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Feminism

Why have there been no Great Women Artists?

1971

Linda Nochlin Vivian Gornick (editor) Barbara K. Moran (editor)

Mary Norman Woods on Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Maria Conen on Why have there been no Great Women Artists?

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Architecture

1980

Valerie Wigfall Rosalie Silverstone (editor) Audrey Ward (editor)

Critique

Goodbye to all That

1968

Joan Didion

Emma Letizia Jones on Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

Would they still call me a Diva?

2019

Jane Hall

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book chapter, Catalogue

Gender

Reconstructed: How Women Architects in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany Countered Negative Images of Female Builders

2012

Despina Stratigakos Mary Pepchinski (editor)

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book chapter, Catalogue

Gender

Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach. An Architect in the Building Industry of West Berlin

2017

Sabine Weissler Mary Pepchinski (editor)

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

The (in)Famous Anca Petrescu. Authorship and authority in Romanian Communist architecture, 1977-1989

2016

Dana Vais Mary Pepchinski (editor) Mariann Simon (editor)

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Travel

Walking after Midnight. Women, Sex and Public Space

2001

Rebecca Solnit

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Gender

“Public Man” and “Private Woman”: Discourse and Practice in Western Societies de

2003

Ulla Terlinden

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Critical Regionalism

1991

Liane Lefaivre Alexander Tzonis Spyros Amourgis (editor)

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Environmentalism

Was heißt Nachhaltigkeit in Architektur und Städtebau? de

2013

Susanne Hauser Kai Mitschele (editor) Sabine Scharff (editor)

Architekturtheorie (2020)

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961

Jane Jacobs

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Loké Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender, Women as architects

Room at the Top, Sexism and the Star System in Architecture

1989

Denise Scott Brown Ellen Perry Berkeley (editor)

Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top May Bi on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail

1994

Rosalind Epstein Krauss