Women Writing Architecture

Types

Glossary Terms

Title

Year

Author

Conversations in Preparation

Book, Fiction

For children

A Little Princess

1905

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Liza Fior on A Little Princess

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Feminism

Living a Feminist Life

2017

Sara Ahmed

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970

Germaine Greer

Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch

Book

Travel

The Dust Roads of Monferrato

1989

Rosetta Loy

Marie-José Van Hee on The Dust Roads of Monferrato

Book

Geschichte der Gartenkunst de

1926

Marie-Luise Gothein

Marie-José Van Hee on Geschichte der Gartenkunst

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Food

Hungry City

2013

Carolyn Steel

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

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Gender

Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitic

2014

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Pornotopia

A Book I Love Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender

Testo Junkie

2013

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie

Writing Memory

Book

Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

Writing Memory

Book, Poetry

Monography

My Life

2013

Lyn Hejinian

Madame ETH Reading Room Fantastic refuge

Book

Shared space, Utopia

Le livre de la cité des dames fr

1405

Christine de Pizan

Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies Katia Frey on Le livre de la cité des dames Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames

Book

Shared space

The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820

2013

Dana Arnold

Annmarie Adams on The Spaces of the Hospital

Book

Domesticity

House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe

1999

Donna Birdwell-Pheasant (editor) Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga (editor)

Annmarie Adams on House Life

Book

Gender

Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals

2013

Lori Brown

Annmarie Adams on Contested Spaces

Book

Domesticity

The Scottish Home

1996

Annette Carruthers

Annmarie Adams on The Scottish Home

Book

Domesticity

Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939

2004

Anne Clendinning

Annmarie Adams on Demons of Domesticity

Book

Shared space

Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History fr

2017

Michèle Dagenais

Annmarie Adams on Montreal, City of Water

Book

Domesticity

American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services

1992

Jessica Foy Thomas J Schlereth

Annmarie Adams on American Home Life

Book

Domesticity

New Households New Housing

1991

Karen Franck (editor) Sherry Ahrentzen (editor)

Annmarie Adams on New Households New Housing

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Domesticity

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House

Book

Domesticity

The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity

2004

Judy Giles

Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb

Book

Ernest Cormier and the Université de Montréal

1990

Isabelle Gournay (editor)

Annmarie Adams on Ernest Cormier

Book

Shared space

A city for children: women, architecture, and the charitable landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950

2014

Marta Gutman

Annmarie Adams on A City for Children

Book

Travel

North Oxford

1992

Tanis Hinchcliffe

Annmarie Adams on North Oxford

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

Book

Writing

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities

2012

Alexandra Lange Jeremy Lange

Annmarie Adams on Writing About Architecture

Book

Domesticity

The Edwardian House: The Middle-class Home in Britain 1880-1914

1993

Helen C Long

Annmarie Adams on The Edwardian House

Book

The Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture

1990

Leslie Maitland

Annmarie Adams on The Queen Anne Revival Style

Book

Domesticity

All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890

1996

Maureen Ogle

Annmarie Adams on All the Modern Conveniences

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Hitler at Home

2015

Despina Stratigakos

Annmarie Adams on Hitler at Home

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

Book

Shared space

Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914

2017

Leslie Topp

Annmarie Adams on Freedom and the Cage

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism

1988

Polly Wynn Allen

Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

1959

Philippa Tristram

Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View

Book

Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display

2000

Carla Yanni

Annmarie Adams on Nature’s Museums

Book

Domesticity, Monography

Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France

2018

Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Annmarie Adams on Me and My House

Loké Madame ETH

Book

Monography, 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

Domesticity

Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments

1990

Elizabeth Collins Cromley

Annmarie Adams on Alone Together

Book

Domesticity

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

1980

Gwendolyn Wright

Annmarie Adams on Moralism and the Model Home

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Architektinnenhistorie: zur Geschichte der Architektinnen und Designerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert: eine erste Zusammenstellung de

1987

Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes Sektion Bundesrepublik (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary

1996

Sarah Wigglesworth (editor) Katerina Rüedi (editor) Duncan McCorquodale (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

The Sex of Architecture

1996

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

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Feminism

Architecture and Feminism

1996

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

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women in architecture survey 1992: a presentation of the findings resulting from a postal questionnaire to registered women architects 1992

1992

Sally Kirk Walker

Finnish Women Writing Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Profiles: pioneering women architects from Finland

1983

Ulla Markelin

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender