Women Writing Architecture

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Urban Design Group Library

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Climax City Masterplanning and the Complexity of Urban Growth

2019

Shruti Hemani David Rudlin

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living City

2019

Margarita Jover Alex Wall

Book

Planetary Longings

2022

Mary Louise Pratt

Book, Essay

Capitalocene, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

2020

Arundhati Roy

Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi

The Author Speaks

Book

Capitalocene, Care, Environmentalism, Feminism, Ways of thinking

Living with an Infected Planet. COVID-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care

2023

Elke Krasny

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Journal

Dividing Space and Labour : Spatial Dynamics of Multinational Corporations

1996

Swapna Banerjee-Guha

Adhrita Roy on Seen From The South

The Book Society List

Book

Capital Is Dead : Is This Something Worse?

2009

McKenzie Wark

Space as Matrix

Book

But we Loved Her

2013

Ursula Mayer

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Eurotopians: Fragments Of A Different Future

2018

Johanna Diehl Niklas Maak

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

2012

Sumita Singha

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Capitalocene, Contact zones, Environmentalism

Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change

2019

Melissa Nursey-Bray

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Article

Capitalocene, Contact zones

For still possible cities: a politics of failure for the politically depressed

2018

Natalie Osborne

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Essay

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

To undo nature; on refusal as return

2020

AM Kanngieser

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

After 8 recommends Madame ETH

Book

Theory of the Gimmick. Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

2020

Sianne Ngai

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

2021

Beatriz Colomina Mark Wigley

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Outlaw Territories – Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

2016

Felicity D. Scott

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

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

2018

Lydia Kallipoliti

Book

Capitalocene, Construction, Utopia

Canteiros da Utopia pt

2020

Silke Kapp

Eric Crevels on Canteiros da Utopia

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

2014

Keller Easterling

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange

2017

Ana Miljački Amanda Reeser Lawrence

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Capitalocene, Critique, Environmentalism

X-Ray Architecture

2019

Beatriz Colomina

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

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

1980

Carolyn Merchant

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)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loudreaders

Fiction

Parable of the Sower

1993

Octavia Butler

Loudreaders on Parable of the Sower

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

Book

Capitalocene, Domesticity, Feminism

The Real Wealth of Nations

2007

Riane Eisler

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

Book

The Intimacies Of Four Continents

2015

Lisa Lowe

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

Book

Capitalocene, Ways of thinking

Revolution für das Leben: Philosophie der neuen Protestformen de

2020

Eva von Redecker

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

Capitalocene, Gender

The Haraway Reader

2003

Donna Haraway

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

Book

Die verkannten Grundlagen der Ökonomie: Wege zu einer Caring Economy de

2020

Riane Eisler

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2023 ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

2010

Isabelle Graw

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

Capitalocene, Care, Gender

Staying with the Trouble

2016

Donna Haraway Michael M. J. Fischer (editor) Joseph Patricck Dumit (editor)

Grégoire Bridel and Remy Carron on Staying with the Trouble Seounju Kim on Staying with the Trouble

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Artistic Mode of Revolution

2012

Martha Rosler

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

2015

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

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

Loké

Article

Capitalocene, Shared space

The Pandemic is a Portal

2020

Arundhati Roy

Erandi de Silva on Pandemic is a Portal Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi