Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Food

The Gastronomical Me

2017

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher

Feminism and Architecture Finnish Women Writing Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Book

Women as architects

The Fringe of A Profession: Women as Architects in Finland From the 1890s to the 1950s

1992

Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Ways of thinking

The Fountainhead

1943

Ayn Rand

Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead

Book

The Force of Non-Violence

2020

Judith Butler

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women as architects

The First American Women Architects

2008

Sarah Allaback

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender 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

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Companion Text, Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970

Germaine Greer

Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch

Book

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

1993

Helen C Long

Annmarie Adams on The Edwardian House

Book

Companion Text, Travel

The Dust Roads of Monferrato

1989

Rosetta Loy

Marie-José Van Hee on The Dust Roads of Monferrato

Space as Matrix

Book

Ways of feeling

The Dream and the Word

2012

Susan Hiller

Researching Encounters

Book

The Domestic Space Reader

2012

Chiara Briganti (editor) Kathy Mezei (editor)

On motherhood

Book

Companion Text, Feminism, Motherhood

The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Chicago Public Housing

2004

Roberta M. Feldman Susan Stall

Rebecca Siefert on The Dignity of Resistance

Ways of thinking, Writing

The Dictionary of Lost Words

2020

Pip Williams

Naomi Caruso on The Dictionary of Lost Words

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Book, Diary

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

1010

Murasaki Shikibu Richard Bowring (translator)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

1970

Shulamith Firestone

Decoratoresses

Book

The Decorative Arts in France, 1900 – 1942

1990

Suzanne Tise Yvonne Brunhammer

Decoratoresses

Book

The Decoration of Houses

1898

Edith Wharton Ogden Codman

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

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

1980

Carolyn Merchant

Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960

Jane Jacobs

Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book

Feminism

The Creation of Patriarchy

1986

Gerda Lerner

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

The Contemporary House

2018

Ellie Stathaki Jonathan Bell

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977

The Combahee River Collective

WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement

Book

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890

Jean M. Auel

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The City as Resource. Text and Projects 2005- 2014

2014

Myriam Perret (editor) Tim Rieniets (editor) Nicolas Kretschmann (editor) Chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse (editor)

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

The Citadel: A Trilogy

2022

Mame-Diarra Niang

Researching Encounters

Book

The Choreography of Everyday Life

2022

Annie-B Parson

Disabling Environments

Book

Care

The Cancer Journals

2006

Audre Lorde

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism, Gender

The Beauty Myth

2002

Naomi Wolf

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814

Julia Pardoe

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

Book

Domesticity, Oral history

The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork

2012

Kirsty Bell

Writing Memory

Book

Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The Art of Building a Garden City. Designing new communities for the 21st Century

2017

Kate Henderson Katy Lock Hugh Ellis

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951

Amabel Williams-Ellis

On motherhood Madame ETH

Book

Motherhood, Spectra

The Argonauts

2015

Maggie Nelson

Tatjana Blaser on The Argonauts

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

The Architecture of Closed Worlds Or, What Is the Power of Shit?

2018

Lydia Kallipoliti

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

The Architectural Drawing Course: The Hand Drawing Techniques Every Architect Should Know

2017

Mo Zell

Book

The Architects Collaborative 1945-1965

1966

Sarah P. Harkness Walter Gropius

Bene Wahlbrink on Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture

2001

Maggie Toy (editor)

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, Essay

Ways of thinking

The Architect as Worker : Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

2015

Peggy Deamer (editor)

Ji Min An on The Architect as Worker

Book

Writing

The Apothecary

1991

Lisa Robertson

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Thanks For The View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit

2020

Danielle Aubert Lana Cavar

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender, Spectra

Testo yonqui es

2008

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie

Cyberfeminism Index 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 Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Terraingewinn: Aspekte zum Schaffen von Schweizer Architektinnen von der Saffa 1928 bis 2003 de

2004

Inge Beckel (editor) Gisela Vollmer (editor)

Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature

Book

Cultivated land

Terrain Vague : Interstices at the Edge of the Pale

2013

Manuela Mariani (editor) Patrick Barron (editor)

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

Book

Feminism, Shared space

Terra Incognita?: Der Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich de

2013

Shelley Berlowitz (editor) Elisabeth Joris (editor) Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli (editor)

Researching Encounters

Book

Feminism, Ways of feeling

TERRA COTTA

2019

Emily Speed (editor)

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange

2017

Ana Miljački Amanda Reeser Lawrence