Women Writing Architecture

Reading Room
Loudreaders
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Syllabus: Elli Mosayebi, Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Domesticity, Gender

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

2004

Silvia Federici

Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch
Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch
Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter

Domesticity

Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Essay

Domesticity

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

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter

Domesticity

Modernism’s Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction

2020

Victoria Rosner

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter

Domesticity

Family Matters: The Schroeder House by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schroeder

1998

Alice T. Friedman Maristella Casciato

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Essay

Domesticity, Food

Passages from Why I Became an Architect

1928

Grete Schütte-Lihotzky

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Article

Domesticity, Gender

Queering the Home: The Domestic Labor of Lesbian and Gay Couples in Contemporary England

2015

Carla Barrett

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Domesticity

Spunk

1925

Zora Neale Hurston

Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020

Book chapter

Domesticity

The Uncanny Architect: Fears of Lesbian Builders and Deviant Homes in Modern Germany

2005

Despina Stratigakos

Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020

Book chapter

Domesticity

‘A citizen as well as a housewife’: New Spaces of Domesticity in 1930s London

2005

Elizabeth Darling Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)

Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020

Book chapter

Domesticity

New Designs for Living: Domestic Equipment of Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret, 1928-29

2003

Mary McLeod (editor)

Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020

Book chapter

Domesticity, Feminism

A Revolution in the Woman’s Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen

1966

Susan R. Henderson Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter

Domesticity

Introduction: Modernism and Domestic Life in the Machine Age

2020

Victoria Rosner

Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter

Domesticity

Domestic Reform and European Modern Architecture: Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby

2010

Mary McLeod Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)

Reading Room
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Syllabus: Elli Mosayebi, Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020
Fantastic refuge

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

A Room of One’s Own

1929

Virginia Woolf

Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own
Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021
Reading Room
Syllabus: DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Conversations in Preparation
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

1981

Dolores Hayden

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution
Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution
Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution

Book

Domesticity