Women Writing Architecture

Types

Glossary Terms

Title

Year

Author

Fantastic refuge

Book, Fiction

Feminism, For children, Oral history, Vernacular

The Bloody Chamber

1979

Angela Carter

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Women as architects

Resurgent Modernism: The Architecture of Namita Singh

2023

Namita Singh Gautam Bhatia

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Construction, Women as architects

A Call to Return: A Journey with Didi Contractor

2024

Lakshmi Menezes

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Environmentalism

Biome Diaries

2021

Chitra Vishwanath Ishita Shah Sharath Nayak Anurag Tamhankar

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Vernacular

An Adobe Revival Didi Contractor’s Architecture

2017

Didi Contractor

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Vernacular

Mud Architecture of the Indian Desert

1992

Minakshi Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Construction, Vernacular

Mehrangarh An Ensemble of Poetic Spaces

2022

Minakshi Jain Meghal Arya Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Vernacular

Architecture of Ridges and Valleys Myths and Realities of Himachal Pradesh

2023

Minakshi Jain I. P. Singh

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Representation, Vernacular

A Study to Promote Textile Consumers’ Knowledge and Awareness Aided by Educational Material

2013

Minakshi Jain Suman Pant

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Vernacular

The Fort of Nagaur

1993

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Representation, Vernacular

Fair Trade Textiles: Today and Tomorrow With Special Reference to Rajasthan

2017

Minakshi Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Companion Text, Cultivated land, Environmentalism

Landscape Architecture History, Ecology, and Patterns

2017

Minakshi Jain I. P. Singh

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Representation

Thematic Space in Indian Architecture

2002

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Vernacular

Architecture of the Indian Desert

2000

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Gender, Women as architects

Women And Architectural History

2024

Dana Arnold

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Gender, Shared space

Gender and the Indian City: Revisioning Design and Planning

2022

Madhavi Desai

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Shared space

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

2024

Jennifer Hart

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Domesticity

Landlords and lodgers : socio-spatial organization in an Accra community

2008

Deborah Pellow

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Contact zones, Shared space

African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

2015

Ingrid Schröder (editor) Julia Jamrozik (editor) Manuel Herz (editor) Hans Focketyn (editor)

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Construction, Vernacular

Architecture in Northern Ghana: A Study of Forms and Functions

2023

Labelle Prussin

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte

Book

Utopia, Ways of thinking

The Origins of Totalitarianism

1951

Hannah Arendt

Book

Life work, Ways of thinking

Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter turkish

1993

Nilgün Marmara

Yagmur Kültür on Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Critique, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Walk Like an Elephant: The Island Essays 2022-2023

2024

Laleen Jayamanne

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book, Fiction

Cultivated land, Environmentalism

Ravana’s Lanka

2024

Sunela Jayewardene

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book, Fiction

Life work

Plastic Emotions

2019

Shiromi Pinto

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Vernacular

Vihares & Verandas Ceylon

1978

Barbara Sansoni

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

The Architecture of an Island

1998

Barbara Sansoni Ronald Lewcock Laki Senanayake

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Life work

Geoffrey Bawa Drawing from the Archives

2023

Shayari de Silva (editor)

Book

Life work

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 nl

1981

Etty Hillesum

Clara Maria Puglisi on An Interrupted Life

Gentleness

Book

Gentleness, Ways of thinking, Writing

Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi

1995

Jennifer Bloomer

Gentleness

Book

Gentleness

The Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

2018

Anne Dufourmantelle Vincent Sallé (translator) Katherine Payne (translator)

Gentleness On success

Book

Care, Gentleness

On Freedom. Four Songs of Care and Constraint

2021

Maggie Nelson

On success

Book

Friendship, Life work

Wir hätten uns alles gesagt de

2023

Judith Hermann

On success

Book

Feminism

Old Mistresses Women, Art and Ideology

2020

Griselda Pollock Rozsika Parker

On success

Book

Ways of thinking

All About Love: New Visions

1999

bell hooks

On success

Book

Ways of thinking

La pesanteur et la grâce fr

1947

Simone Weil

On success

Book, Fiction

Companion Text, Life work

L’arte delle gioia it

1998

Goliarda Sapienza

Alessia Bertini on L’arte delle gioia

On motherhood

Book

Feminism, Motherhood

母性の復興 The Renaissance of Motherhood ja sv

1914

Hiratsuka Raichō Ellen Key (translator)

On success

Book

Ways of thinking

Right Kind of Wrong. Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive

2023

Amy Edmondson

On success

Book

Friendship

On the Benefits of Friendship

2023

Isabelle Graw

Book

Contact zones, Spectra

Pervert or Detective?

2025

Reba Maybury Lucy Mackenzie

Reba Maybury and Lucy Mackenzie on I Love Dick

On motherhood

Book

Motherhood

Mothering Myths An ABC of Art, Birth and Care

2025

Laurie Cluitmans (editor) Heske ten Cate (editor)

On motherhood

Book

Motherhood

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

2022

Sophie Lewis

On motherhood

Book

Motherhood, Spectra

Full Surrogacy Now

2019

Sophie Lewis

Book, Monograph

Care, Shared space, Vernacular

Little Spaces : Kumiko Inui + ja

2014

Kumiko Inui

Meg Marumoto on Little Spaces : Kumiko Inui +

Book

Vernacular

African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective

1978

Susan Denyer

Book

Contact zones, Feminism, Vernacular

Grandma’s Story

2025

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Book

Vernacular

Drawn from African Dwellings

1997

Trinh T. Minh-ha Jean-Paul Bourdier

Book

Vernacular

Vernacular Architecture of West Africa: A World in Dwelling

2011

Trinh T. Minh-ha Jean-Paul Bourdier

The Weather

Book

Environmentalism

Light polish

2024

Małgorzata Kuciewicz Simone De Iacobis Centrala