Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Swing Time

2016

Zadie Smith

Albert Jiménez Rodríquez on Swing Time Elena Gallo and Tahnee Rutter on Swing Time

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Contact zones, Shared space

African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

2015

Ingrid Schröder (editor) Julia Jamrozik (editor) Manuel Herz (editor) Hans Focketyn (editor)

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

2013

Laura Gottesdiener

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Journal

Contact zones, Shared space

Espacio Públicos Lineales en las Ciudades Latinoamericanas es

2013

Silvia Arango

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Decolonization is not a Metaphor

2012

Eve Tuck K. Wayne Yang

WAI Think Tank on Decolonization is not a Metaphor

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Contact zones, Gender

South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text

2011

Catherine Davies (editor) Claire Brewster (editor) Hilary Owen (editor)

Loudreaders

Poetry

Capitalocene, Contact zones

While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country)

2010

Raquel Salas Rivera

Loudreaders on While They Sleep

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Contact zones, Vernacular

Agra: The Architectural Heritage

2010

Lucy Peck

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Article

The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory

2009

Ananya Roy

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Article

Ordinary Cities : Between Modernity and Development

2006

Jennifer Robinson

Expanding Agency

Book

Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa

2006

Janet Berry Hess

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Contact zones, Vernacular

Delhi A Thousand Years Of Building

2005

Lucy Peck

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water A Book I Love New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

Contact zones, Domesticity

Purple Hibiscus

2003

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Laura Evans on Purple Hibiscus Laura Evans and Finian Reece-Thomas on Purple Hibiscus Dawid Roszkowski and Dongyong Oh on Purple Hibiscus

Expanding Agency

Book

White Papers, Black Marks

2000

Lesley Lokko

Loké New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

Contact zones, Gentleness

The God of Small Things

1997

Arundhati Roy

Laura Evans and Hiyala Shafeeq on The God of Small Things

Contact zones, Environmentalism

Beverly Buchanan shackworks : a 16-year survey

1994

Beverly Buchanan

Helen Thomas on Buchanan (Marsh Ruins)

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

Book

Contact zones, Feminism, Vernacular

Woman, Native, Other : Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism de

1989

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Parity in History?

Article

Contact zones, Spectra

Choosing the Margin as a Space for Radical Openness

1989

bell hooks

Fiction

Contact zones, Feminism

Nervous Conditions

1988

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Loké

Book

Contact zones, Travel, Vernacular

Africa Adorned

1984

Angela Fisher

Contact zones, Domesticity

The House on Mango Street

1984

Sandra Cisneros

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on The House on Mango Street

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Contact zones, Feminism, Gender, Oral history

From Survival to Defiance : Indian Hawkers in Johannesburg

1983

Coco Cachalia

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book, Fiction, Manuscript, Novel, Poetry

Contact zones, Feminism, Vernacular

Dictee 딕테 fr ko

1982

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Jaehee Shin on Dictee

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Contact zones, Cultivated land

Juan O’Gorman, arquitecto y pintor es

1982

Ida Prampolini

Helen Thomas on Juan O’Gorman

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Book

Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco

1980

Janet Abu-Lughod

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

A Town called Victoria or, The Rise and Fall of the Thatched House Hotel

1978

Katherine Sayce

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Contact zones, Cultivated land, Domesticity, Vernacular

Toji 토지 ko

1973

Pak Kyongni

Covid Diary, January 2022

Contact zones, Spectra

The Golden Notebook

1962

Doris Lessing

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

The Sea Wall fr

1950

Marguerite Duras

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Contact zones, For children

The River

1946

Rumer Godden

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Contact zones, Cultivated land

Bowen’s Court

1942

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on Bowen’s Court

New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

Jamaica Inn

1936

Daphne du Maurier

Laura Evans and Drucilla Boakye on Jamaica Inn

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

The Last September

1929

Elizabeth Bowen

Parity in History?

Book

Behind the Scenes

1868

Elizabeth Keckley

Parity in History?

Book

Life in Mexico during a Residence of Two Years in that Country

1843

Frances Erskine Inglis

Adrienne Enz on Life in Mexico Xinghe Guo on Life in Mexico Monika Grabski on Life in Mexico Maria Vittoria Giani on Life in Mexico Valmira Haziri on Life in Mexico