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Women Writing Architecture

At the heart of Women Writing Architecture is this ever-growing annotated bibliography, an open-access list of texts written by women about architecture. Created collaboratively through conversations, invitations and spontaneous suggestions, it is offered as a resource for gathering lists of texts, for encouragement, for finding new writers, and for insight into what is happening in the vivid realm where women speak up for themselves.

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Annotations are citations suggested by individuals accompanied by their thoughts, opinions and research.

Types

Topics

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

Essay, Online article

The universal design ideal

2019

Anna Leahy

Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

Feminism, Gender

The architect as genius: feminism and the aesthetics of exclusion

1991

Christine Battersby

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022

Book, Essay

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

2017

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Madame ETH

Essay

Ways of thinking

Bee Reaved

2021

Dodie Bellamy

Madame ETH

Essay

Critique

Notes on “Camp”

1954

Susan Sontag

Paul Grieguszies Schäfer on Notes on “Camp”

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Organiser le vide fr

2013

Giulia Mazza

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

La Ville cohérente fr

2013

Berengère de Contenson

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

En poète habite l’homme fr

2012

Édith Girard

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Signification Immergée fr

2011

Zoé Salvaire

Caryatide: Always work in progress

La fenêtre. À propos de la Ville Malaparte, Adal berto Libera, Capri, Italie, 1938-1942 fr

2011

Marie Corbin

Caryatide: Always work in progress

De l’émotion dans un art positif. Esquisse d’une définition de la nature de l’émotion architecturale fr

2011

Judith Rotbart Laurent Salomon

Caryatide: Always work in progress

L’architecture invisible. Réfléchir et contruire avec la complexité et la réalité fr

2011

Claudia Mion

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

Shared considerations on matter. Fragments de la série photographique « su marmo », de Grazia cantoni fr

2010

Maria Grazia Cantoni

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Matières de la ville. A propos du pavillon espagnol de l’exposition universelle, EMBT Architectos, Shangaï (Chine), 2010 fr

2010

Félicia Revay

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Thinking I Making. A propos du travail de studio Mumbai en Inde fr

2010

Claudia Mion

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Hélène Binet fotografa Zaha Hadid. Hélène Binet fotografa di architettura it

2010

Hélène Binet Claudia Mion

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Lumière sur la forme. A propos de la chapelle blanche de Jun Aoki, Osaka, Japon, 2006 et de l’église de la lumière de Tadao Ando, Osaka, Japon, 1989 fr

2010

Félicia Revay

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

L’Être de l’Espace. Structure et signification fr

2010

Adriana Patrascu

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Writing

Entre ciel et terre. A propos du pavillon des Pays Nordiques, Sverre Fehn, Venise (It), 1961 fr

2010

Claudia Mion

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Women as architects

Notes de Travail fr

2010

Riccarda Guidotti Giacomo Guidotti

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

Construire et comprendre. La nature de l’Homme et la nature des choses fr

2010

Adriana Patrascu

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

Retour en Orient. Villa impériale de Katsura, Kyoto (J), 1615-1633 fr

2010

Claudia Mion Giovanni Petrolito

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Learning

Architecture émotive. Une leçon de Luis Barragàn fr

2010

Anne-Lyse Antoine Elisa de Bridda

Reading Room

Essay

Critique, Feminism

The Problem of Speaking For Others

1992

Linda Martín Alcoff

Emilie Appercé on The Problem of Speaking For Others

Fantastic refuge

Essay

Utopia

Sultana’s Dream

1905

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes on Sultana’s Dream

Essay

Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio es

1983

Ana Vega

WAI Think Tank on Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Essay

Les premières femmes architectes de Suisse fr

1992

Evelyne Lang

Essay

Ways of thinking

Met Hannah Arendt naar Parijs nl

2020

Joke J. Hermsen

Saar Meganck on With Hannah Arendt to Paris

Essay, Online article

Interview with Annebella Pollen on the Typology of the Photobooth

2020

Annebella Pollen Francisco Moura Veiga

Francisco Moura Veiga on Interview with Annebella Pollen on the Typology of the Photobooth

Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)

Essay

Can the Subaltern Speak?

1988

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak?

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism, Gender

Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

1997

Greta Gaard

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism

The Gender and the Environment Debate: Lessons from India

1992

Bina Agarwal

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

Book, Essay

Feminism

We Should All Be Feminists

2014

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Thomas Rohrer on We Should All Be Feminists

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Essay, Online article

Twentieth-Century muf (1995-1999)

2016

Helen Thomas

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Essay

Being Modern Together: Le Corbusier’s Villa Stein–de Monzie

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Essay

Domesticity, Food

Passages from Why I Became an Architect

1928

Grete Schütte-Lihotzky

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

Essay

Gender

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

1987

Donna Haraway

Essay

Beatrix Potter’s Places

1967

Alison Smithson

Jane Hall on Beatrix Potter’s Places