Women Writing Architecture

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Glossary Terms

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Modernist Estates – Europe The buildings and people who live in them today

2019

Stefi Orazi

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Cultivated land, Shared space

Urbanizing the Alps Densification Strategies for High-Altitude Villages

2019

Fiona Pia

Book

Environmentalism, Vernacular, Women as architects

In Forest, Field and Factory

2019

Gauri Bharat

Adhrita Roy on In Forest, Field and Factory

Book

Feminism, Ways of thinking

Revolutionary Time : On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray

2019

Fanny Söderbäck

Expanding Agency

Book

Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

2019

Sheetal Chhabria

Expanding Agency

Book

Housing, Architecture, and the Edge Condition: Dublin is Building, 1935-1975

2019

Ellen Rowley

Book

Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968–present

2019

Margaretta Jolly

Amy Perkins on Speaking of Buildings

Memories of the Women of Graubünden

Book

Die verlorenen Töchter de

2019

Silke Redolfi

Disabling Environments

Book

Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the Interwar Years

2019

Elaine Harwood

Book

Feminism

La potencia feminista : O el deseo de cambiarlo todo es

2019

Verónica Gago

Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?

Matéria Prima – A bookshop selection

Book

Contact zones, Critique, Representation

Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism

2019

Ariella Aisha Azoulay

Researching Encounters

Book

Feminism, Ways of feeling

TERRA COTTA

2019

Emily Speed (editor)

On motherhood ISBN+ – A bookshop selection

Book

Domesticity, Motherhood, Representation, Ways of feeling

PILLARS OF HOME

2019

Csilla Klenyánszki

Book

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Bauhaus women. A global perspective.

2019

Elizabeth Otto (editor)

On motherhood

Book

Motherhood, Spectra

Full Surrogacy Now

2019

Sophie Lewis

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Plastic Emotions

2019

Shiromi Pinto

indiana collective’s reading list

Book

Gender, Shared space

Gendered Approaches to spatial Development in Europe

2019

Barbara Zibell (editor) Doris Damyanovic (editor) Ulrike Sturm (editor)

Book

Domesticity, Life work

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

2018

Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Annmarie Adams on Me and My House

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Parity in History? Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Feminism

Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

2018

Hélène Frichot (editor) Catharina Gabrielsson (editor) Helen Runting (editor)

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

Capitalocene, Environmentalism, Spectra

Oneness versus the 1%

2018

Vandana Shiva

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Environmentalism

Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment

2018

Design Earth

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

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

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

Book

Feminism

8M – Der grosse feministische Streik de

2018

Verónica Gago Raquel Gutiérrez

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

Book

Capitalocene, Gender

Unruhig bleiben: Die Verwandtschaft der Arten im Chthuluzän de

2018

Donna Haraway

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

Book

Feminism, Gender, Spectra

I’m a Queerfeminist Cyborg, That’s Okay de

2018

Mika Murstein

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

Book

Feminism

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats de

2018

Margarete Stokowski

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

Book

Gender

Untenrum frei de

2018

Margarete Stokowski

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

Book

Ways of feeling

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening

2018

Salomé Voegelin

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Floras Schwestern: Gärten und Frauen de

2018

Annemarie Bucher

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

2018

Emma Cheatle

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament

2018

Bridget Elliott Janice Helland

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women as architects

Women Architects in the Modern Movement

2018

Carmen Espegel

Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Frauennetzwerke in Architektur und Planung de

2018

Barbara Zibell (editor) Maya Karácsony (editor)

Milena Buchwalder on Frauennetzwerke in Architektur und Planung

Intersectional Discrimination Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Geoffrey Bawa Manning – Decolonizing Architecture

2018

Shanti Jayewardene

Erandi de Silva on Geoffrey Bawa

Loudreaders

Book

Critique

The Tertiary

2018

Raquel Salas Rivera

Loudreaders on The Tertiary

Loudreaders

Book

Farming While Black

2018

Leah Penniman

Loudreaders on Farming While Black

Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Chez soi : une odyssée de l’espace domestique fr

2018

Mona Chollet

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Feminism

Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

2018

Silvia Federici

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Spectra

Countersexual Manifesto

2018

Paul B. Preciado

Book

Women as architects

Building Role Models — Architecture spoken by women 빌딩롤모델즈 — 여성이 말하는 건축 ko

2018

Complement (of Women) 여집합

Jaehee Shin on Building Role Models

Reading Room

Book, Graphic novel

Gender

I’m Every Woman sv

2018

Liv Strömquist (illustrator)

Emilie Appercé on I’m every woman

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

Max Lamb: Exercises in Seating

2018

Zoë Ryan

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

RCR. Dream and Nature

2018

Pati Nuñez (editor) Estel Ortega (editor)

Book

Capitalocene, Ways of feeling

Politik der Emotion de

2018

Olga Flor

Tatjana Blaser on Politik der Emotion

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Jenseits von New York: Ausgewählte Reportagen, Feuilletons, Briefe und Fotografien aus den USA 1936-1938 de

2018

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

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

2018

Lydia Kallipoliti

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Ways of thinking

Creative Ecologies Theorizing the Practice of Architecture

2018

Hélène Frichot

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Why Architects Matter – Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

2018

Flora Samuel