Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Capitalocene, Critique, Environmentalism

X-Ray Architecture

2019

Beatriz Colomina

Loudreaders

Poetry

Capitalocene, Contact zones

While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country)

2010

Raquel Salas Rivera

Loudreaders on While They Sleep

Book

Capitalocene, Feminism

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

2014

Laurie Penny

Tatjana Blaser on Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

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

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Essay

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

To undo nature; on refusal as return

2020

AM Kanngieser

After 8 recommends Madame ETH

Book

Theory of the Gimmick. Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

2020

Sianne Ngai

Fiction

The Unreal and the Real

2012

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

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

Anna Rothstein on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Dimitri Bleichenbacher on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Laura Oberholzer on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Léa De Piccoli on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

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

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

Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature A Book I Love 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

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, Gender

The Haraway Reader

2003

Donna Haraway

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

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

1980

Carolyn Merchant

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

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

Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange

2017

Ana Miljački Amanda Reeser Lawrence

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

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

Book

Capitalocene, Ways of feeling

Politik der Emotion de

2018

Olga Flor

Tatjana Blaser on Politik der Emotion

Book

Planetary Longings

2022

Mary Louise Pratt

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loudreaders

Fiction

Parable of the Sower

1993

Octavia E Butler

Loudreaders on Parable of the Sower

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Outlaw Territories – Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

2016

Felicity D. Scott

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism, Spectra

Oneness versus the 1%

2018

Vandana Shiva

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

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

Disabling Environments

Online resource, Report

Capitalocene, Care, Environmentalism

Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

2018

Sonya Ayeb-Karlsson et. al.

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism

2015

Isabelle Stengers

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space, Utopia

GRM. Brainfuck. de

2019

Sibylle Berg

Tatjana Blaser on GRM. Brainfuck.

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

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

2014

Keller Easterling

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Eurotopians: Fragments Of A Different Future

2018

Johanna Diehl Niklas Maak

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living City

2019

Margarita Jover Alex Wall

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

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

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Climax City Masterplanning and the Complexity of Urban Growth

2019

Shruti Hemani David Rudlin

Disabling Environments

Article

Capitalocene, Spectra

Climate change and epilepsy: Time to take action

2019

Hayley Fowler Rosemary Ogwe Nanji Aideen Foley

Disabling Environments

Article

Capitalocene, Shared space, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

Climate change and epilepsy: Insights from clinical and basic science studies

2021

Medine Gulcebi Janet Misfud Anna Maria Vezzani Ingrid Scheffer Hayley Fowler Aideen Foley

The Book Society List

Book

Capital Is Dead : Is This Something Worse?

2009

McKenzie Wark

Book

Capitalocene, Construction, Utopia

Canteiros da Utopia pt

2020

Silke Kapp

Eric Crevels on Canteiros da Utopia

Space as Matrix

Book

But we Loved Her

2013

Ursula Mayer

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Baku. Oil and Urbanism

2017

Eve Blau Ivan Rupnik

Book, Essay

Capitalocene, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

2020

Arundhati Roy

Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi

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

Oliver Zbinden, Charlotte Thallinger, Alois Merkt on Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

2021

Beatriz Colomina Mark Wigley

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism

Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

2012

Sumita Singha

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)