Women Writing Architecture

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

Conversations in Preparation
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book, Fiction

Pride and Prejudice

1813

Jane Austen

Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814

Julia Pardoe

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

Letters Written During a Tour Through Normandy, Brittany and Other Parts of France in 1818

1820

Anna Eliza Bray

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Travel

Fahrten einer Paria 1: Reise von Bordeaux nach Peru de

1837

Flora Tristan

Book

Critique, Travel

Promenades dans Londres fr

1840

Flora Tristan

Eliana Perotti on Promenades dans Londres

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

A Visit to Italy

1842

Frances Trollope

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

Book

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

1850

Sojourner Truth

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Shared space

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

Book

For children

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890

Jean M. Auel

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear

Conversations in Preparation

Book, Fiction

For children

A Little Princess

1905

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Liza Fior on A Little Princess

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

Book

Feminism

Die Ziele der Frauenbewegung de

1910

Betty Farbstein

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

1914

Gertrude Bell

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

The Pleasures of Architecture

1924

Amabel Williams-Ellis Clough Williams-Ellis

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book, Fiction

Domesticity

Geschichte der Gartenkunst de

1926

Marie-Luise Gothein

Marie-José Van Hee on Geschichte der Gartenkunst

Book, Fiction

Shared space

Metropolis de

1926

Thea von Harbou

Eliana Perotti on Metropolis

Reading Room

Book, Fiction

Cultivated land, Travel, Vernacular

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927

Willa Cather

Reading Room
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Syllabus: Elli Mosayebi, Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

A Room of One’s Own

1929

Virginia Woolf

Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own
Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own

Book

Gender

Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen de

1932

Johanna Böhm

Despina Stratigakos on Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen

Book

Europe Rehoused

1938

Elizabeth Denby

Elizabeth Darling on Europe Rehoused

Book

Travel

Reise nach Skandinavien und Finnland de

1942

Berta Rahm

Katia Frey on Reise nach Skandinavien und Finnland

Conversations in Preparation

Book

The Fountainhead

1943

Ayn Rand

Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead

Reading Room

Book

Construction, Domesticity, Drawing, Feminism, Shared space, Women as architects

Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung de

1946

Berta Rahm

Emilie Appercé on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung

FU Berlin to commemorate the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir

Book

Monography

L’Amerique au jour le jour (America Day by Day) fr

1948

Simone de Beauvoir

Mary Pepchinski on America Day by Day

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

Book

Feminism

Le Deuxième Sexe fr

1949

Simone de Beauvoir

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book, Fiction

Monography

Mémoires d’Hadrien fr

1951

Marguerite Yourcenar

Adam Caruso on Memoirs of Hadrian
Asli Çiçek on Memoirs of Hadrian

Book, Fiction

Colonial Situations, Domesticity

Purple Hibiscus

1952

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Laura Evans on Purple Hibiscus

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Ways of thinking

The Human Condition

1958

Hannah Arendt

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

1959

Philippa Tristram

Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View

Book

Shared space

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960

Jane Jacobs

FU Berlin to commemorate the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir

Book

Monography

La Force de l’âge (The Time of Life) fr

1960

Simone de Beauvoir

Mary Pepchinski on The Time of Life

Book

Food

I’ll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon

1960

Elizabeth David

Roz Barr on I’ll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon

Syllabus: Elli Mosayebi, Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Syllabus: Mary Pepchinski, Architekturtheorie 2020

Book

Environmentalism

The Silent Spring

1962

Rachel Carson

Syllabus: Mary Pepchinski, Architekturtheorie 2020

Book

Monography

La Force des choses (Force of Circumstance)

1963

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Book

Feminism

The Feminine Mystique

1963

Betty Friedan

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

Book, Fiction

The Group

1963

Mary McCarthy

FU Berlin to commemorate the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir

Book

Monography

Une mort très douce (A very easy death) fr

1964

Simone de Beauvoir

Mary Pepchinski on A Very Easy Death

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914

1964

Alison Adburgham

Book

Shared space

L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités: une anthologie fr

1965

Françoise Choay

Katia Frey on L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités

Writing Memory

Book

Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

Book, Fiction

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966

Jean Rhys

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Book

Monography

Hermann Czech. Architekt in Wien de

1968

Eva Kuß

Reem Almannai on Herman Czech

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

Book

SCUM Manifesto

1968

Valerie Solanas

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970

Germaine Greer

Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch

Book

Vernacular

Traditional Artistic Designs of Korea 한국전통의장자료 korean

1972

Byung-ok Chun 천병옥

Jaehee Shin on Traditional Artistic Designs of Korea

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture

1973

Doris Cole

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

For children, Women as architects

What Can She Be? An Architect

1974

Esther Goldreich Gloria Goldreich

Book

Feminism, Monography

An Autobiography

1974

Angela Davis

Erandi de Silva on An Autobiography

Reading Room

Book

Drawing

Niki de Saint-Phalle : projets & realisations d’architecture fr

1974

Niki de Saint Phalle

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

Book

Feminism

Hautungen, Biografische Aufzeichnungen de

1975

Verena Stefan

Loudreaders

Book

Domesticity

Wages Against Housework

1975

Silvia Federici

Loudreaders on Wages Against Housework

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender, Shared space

The Hearing Trumpet

1976

Leonora Carrington Pablo Weisz Carrington (illustrator)

Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet

Book

Kicked a Building Lately?

1976

Ada Louise Huxtable

Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective

1977

Susana Torre (editor)

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Passages in Modern Sculpture

1977

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

Mariana Siracusa on Passages in Modern Sculpture

Book

Gender

Ce sexe qui n’en est pas un fr

1977

Luce Irigaray

Book

Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977

The Combahee River Collective

WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement

Book

Feminism

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

1979

Angela Carter

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

Book

Gender

Das Geschlecht, das nicht eins ist de

1979

Luce Irigaray

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

Reading Room
Syllabus: DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Capitalocene

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

1980

Carolyn Merchant

Reading Room
Syllabus: DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Conversations in Preparation
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

1981

Dolores Hayden

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution
Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution
Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Domesticity, Feminism