Women Writing Architecture

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Glossary Terms

Loudreaders

Book

Life work, Utopia

Amor y Anarquía: Los Escritos de Luisa Capetillo es

1992

Luisa Capetillo Julio Ramos (editor)

Loudreaders on Amor y Anarquía

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women as architects

AMM Architektinnen machen Möbel de

2019

Judith Augustinovic

Book

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

1992

Jessica Foy Thomas J Schlereth

Annmarie Adams on American Home Life

Space as Matrix

Book

Feminism

Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and the Poetics of Space

2007

Doina Petrescu

Book

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

1990

Elizabeth Collins Cromley

Annmarie Adams on Alone Together

Book

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

1996

Maureen Ogle

Annmarie Adams on All the Modern Conveniences

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

All Stracheys are Cousins

1983

Amabel Williams-Ellis

On success

Book

Ways of thinking

All About Love: New Visions

1999

bell hooks

Decoratoresses

Book

Alfred H Barr Jr: Missionary of the Modern

1989

Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Finnish Women Writing Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Book

Women as architects

Aino and Alvar Aalto: A Shared Journey: Interpretations of an Everyday Modernism

2007

Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Book

Life work, Women as architects

Aino Aalto

2004

Ulla Kinnunen (editor)

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

Book

Feminism

Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism

2008

bell hooks

Reading Room

Feminism

Ahmed for Architecture Students

2019

Brady Burroughs

Amy Perkins on Ahmed for Architecture Students

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Contact zones, Vernacular

Agra: The Architectural Heritage

2010

Lucy Peck

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Agnes Martin: Writings de

2005

Agnes Martin Dieter Schwarz (editor)

Roz Barr on Agnes Martin

Hochparterre Bücher recommends

Book

Aglaia Konrad. Japan Works

2021

Aglaia Konrad

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Care, Shared space

Age-Inclusive Public Space

2020

Dominique Hauderowicz (editor) Kristian Ly Serena (editor)

Book

Spectra

Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto

2023

Simon(e) von Saarloos

Shen He on texts by Simon(e) von Saarloos

Space as Matrix

Book

After the Night

2013

Everyone Agrees

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations

2019

Elizabeth Allison (editor) Kenneth Worthy (editor) Whitney A. Bauman (editor)

ISBN+ – A bookshop selection

Book

Spectra

After Dreams; I dare to Defy the Damage

2022

Zsófia Keresztes

Decoratoresses

Book

After All

1935

Elsie de Wolfe

Book

African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective

1978

Susan Denyer

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender

African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender

1995

Labelle Prussin (editor)

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)

Loké

Book

Contact zones, Travel, Vernacular

Africa Adorned

1984

Angela Fisher

Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests

Book

Women as architects

Accueillir le vivant, l’architecture comme écosystème fr

2019

Pascale Dalix Frédéric Chartier

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte Loudreaders

Book

Feminism

Absolute Equality: An Early Feminist Perspective

2009

Luisa Capetillo Lara Walker (translator)

Loudreaders on Absolute Equality

On motherhood

Book

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

2022

Sophie Lewis

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Book

Women as architects

AA women in architecture, 1917–2017

2017

Elizabeth Darling (editor) Lynne Walker (editor)

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

2015

Nancy Kwak

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Book

A women’s Berlin: Building the modern city

2008

Despina Stratigakos

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

A Visit to Italy

1842

Frances Trollope

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte Parity in History? Conversations in Preparation

Book

Feminism

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 de

1986

Mary Wollstonecraft

Anouk Fischer on Vindication of the Rights of Women Lea Graziani on Vindication of the Rights of Women

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

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

1978

Katherine Sayce

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

A Tour in Switzerland: Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris

1798

Helen Maria Williams

Anne Hultzsch on A Tour in Switzerland

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

Book

Critique

A Short Life of Trouble. Forty Years in the New York Art World

2010

Marcia Tucker

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

Conversations in Preparation

Book

A Pictorial History of World Architecture chinese

1986

Luo Xiaowei 罗小未 Cai Wanying 蔡琬英

Yeshi Wang on A Pictorial History of World Architecture

Being a Stranger

A Lover’s Discourse

2021

Xiaolu Guo

Natália Peťková on A Lover’s Discourse

Conversations in Preparation

Companion Text, For children

A Little Princess

1905

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Liza Fior on A Little Princess

Book

A Life of Creation

2003

Charlotte Perriand

Asli Çiçek on A Life of Creation

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd

2013

Catherine Burke

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine: To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland

1795

Ann Radcliffe

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Domesticity, Gender

A History of Private Life

1994

Michelle Perrault (editor)

Cyberfeminism Index

Book

A Hacker Manifesto

2004

McKenzie Wark

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

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

2013

Laura Gottesdiener

Book

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

2014

Marta Gutman

Annmarie Adams on A City for Children

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