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

Book

Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum

2000

Kalpana Sharma

Nandini Somaya Sampat on Rediscovering Dharavi

Book

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890

Jean M. Auel

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear

Book

Feminism

Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women

2019

Deepa Narayan

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on Chup

Book

Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence

2009

Jaynie Anderson

Emma Letizia Jones on Giorgione and Crossing Cultures

Book

Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity

1996

Jaynie Anderson

Emma Letizia Jones on Giorgione and Crossing Cultures

Book

Writing

The Printed and the Built: Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century

2018

Mari Hvattum (editor) Anne Hultzsch (editor)

Emma Letizia Jones on The Printed and the Built

Book

Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction

2017

Mari Lending

Emma Letizia Jones on Plaster Monuments

Book

Life work, Representation

Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

2008

Cammy Brothers

Emma Letizia Jones on Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

Madame ETH

Book

Brinda Somaya: Works and Continuities An Architectural Monograph

2018

Nandini Somaya Sampat (editor)

Mary Norman Woods on Brinda Somaya Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on Brinda Somaya

Le génie Lesbien fr

2020

Alice Coffin

Stéphanie Dadour on Le génie Lesbien

On motherhood Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Feminism, Motherhood

The Handmaid’s Tale

1985

Margaret Atwood

Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

White is for Witching

2009

Helen Oyeyemi

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

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

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

A Visit to Italy

1842

Frances Trollope

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

The Pleasures of Architecture

1924

Amabel Williams-Ellis Clough Williams-Ellis

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914

1964

Alison Adburgham

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

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

1914

Gertrude Bell

Thinking & Writing Place Feminism and Architecture Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel Madame ETH 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 Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Fantastic refuge

Book

Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

A Room of One’s Own

1929

Virginia Woolf

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

Book

Hermann Czech. Architekt in Wien de

1968

Eva Kuß

Reem Almannai on Herman Czech

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

Domesticity, Shared space

Pride and Prejudice

1813

Jane Austen

Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Ways of thinking

The Fountainhead

1943

Ayn Rand

Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Madame ETH ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021) Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book

Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

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

1981

Dolores Hayden

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

Book

Construction, Oral history

La Grande Arche fr

2016

Laurence Cossé

Hélène Solvay on La Grande Arche

Feminism and Architecture

Book

Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900

1996

Annmarie Adams

Despina Stratigakos on Architecture in the Family Way

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Women in Architecture: A Contemporary Perspective

1990

Clare Lorenz

Book

Gender

Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen de

1932

Johanna Böhm

Despina Stratigakos on Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

Multi-Habitation Urban Housing and Everyday Life in Chitungwiza

2003

Ann Schlyter

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

A Town called Victoria or, The Rise and Fall of the Thatched House Hotel

1978

Katherine Sayce

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

Zimbabwe: Art, Symbol and Meaning

2020

Gillian Atherstone

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

Shared space, Ways of thinking

I Will Draw A Map Of What You Never See, Endeavours in Rhythmanalysis

2019

Anna Jäger Saskia Köbschall Elena Agudio

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Environmentalism

Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment

2018

Design Earth

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism

2015

Isabelle Stengers

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism, Spectra

Oneness versus the 1%

2018

Vandana Shiva

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Battle For Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect

2016

Marwa al-Sabouni

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

The Heart Goes Last

2015

Margaret Atwood

Reading Room Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020 Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book

Feminism

The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

2018

Audre Lorde

Soo Jin Kim on The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Homes

2015

Judith Flanders

Book

A Life of Creation

2003

Charlotte Perriand

Asli Çiçek on A Life of Creation

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Companion Text, Life work

Mémoires d’Hadrien fr

1951

Marguerite Yourcenar

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

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Food

Sitopia – How Food Can Change the World

2020

Carolyn Steel

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Shared space, Spectra

Made Possible: Stories of Success by People with Learning Disabilities

2020

Saba Salman

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Food

The Gastronomical Me

2017

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

2011

Anna Funder

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Parity in History? Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Travel

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

2014

Rebecca Solnit

Caroline Voet on Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Domesticity, Oral history

The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork

2012

Kirsty Bell

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016

Olivia Laing

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

1990

Carol Adams

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

2013

Laura Gottesdiener