Women Writing Architecture

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

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Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Construction, Domesticity

Dust Free Friends

2015

Stephanie Macdonald Tom Emerson

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Beyond Live/Work. The Architecture of Home- Based Work

2015

Frances Holliss

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

2015

Nancy Kwak

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965

2015

Barbara Miller Lane

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Tropical Living: Dream Houses At Exotic Places

2014

Manuela Roth

Bauhaus Women

Book

Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

2014

T’ai Smith

Zofia Hansen in Szumin

Dom jako forma otwarta : Szumin Hansenów polish

2014

Aleksandra Kedziorek (editor) Filip Springer

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Rough Interiors

2013

Sibylle Kramer

Zofia Hansen in Szumin

Oskar and Zofia Hansen House in Szumin

2013

Aleksandra Kedziorek

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Domesticity, Oral history

The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork

2012

Kirsty Bell

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

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Aufstand aus der Küche: Reproduktionsarbeit im globalen Kapitalismus und die unvollendete feministische Revolution de

2012

Silvia Federici

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Tropical Houses: Living In Paradise

2012

Michelle Galindo

Disabling Environments

Article

Furniture forms and their influence on our emotional responses toward interior environment

2012

Sibel Seda Dazkir Marilyn Read

Researching Encounters

Book

The Domestic Space Reader

2012

Chiara Briganti (editor) Kathy Mezei (editor)

Disabling Environments

Book

Nesting: Body, dwelling, mind

2011

Sara Robinson

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

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

2010

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

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Article

Housing the Single Woman: The Frankfurt Experiment

2009

Susan R. Henderson

Habitabilidade do espaço doméstico : o cliente, o arquitecto, o habitante e a casa pt

2008

Ana Luísa Rodrigues

Joana Ribeiro on Casas com nome

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

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Domesticity at War

2007

Beatriz Colomina

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Le Dit du Genji de Murasaki-shikibu illustré par la peinture traditionnelle japonaise fr

2007

Estelle Bauer Murasaki Shikibu

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

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

2005

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

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Domesticity, Spectra

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

2005

Despina Stratigakos

Reading Room

Book, Book chapter, Online resource

Critique, Cultivated land, Domesticity, Environmentalism, Feminism, Food, Writing

Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations: Textes d’Augusta Gillabert-Randin 1918-1940 fr

2005

Marthe Gosteli Peter Moser

Emilie Appercé on Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations

Book

Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939

2004

Anne Clendinning

Annmarie Adams on Demons of Domesticity

Book

The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity

2004

Judy Giles

Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb

Seen, Heard, Built Madame ETH Reading Room Loudreaders 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

Book

Domesticity, Gender

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

2004

Silvia Federici

Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

Multi-Habitation Urban Housing and Everyday Life in Chitungwiza

2003

Ann Schlyter

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

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

2003

Mary McLeod (editor)

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

Decoratoresses

Domesticity, Women as architects

Designers on Designers

2003

Susan Gray

Loké

Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement

2003

Nathalie du Pasquier (illustrator) Leonard Koren

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Women’s Life & Culture in Joseon Dynasty ko

2002

Seoul Museum of History

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Domesticity, Shared space

‘What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?’: Jane Austen’s Use of Bath in ‘Persuasion’

2001

Keiko Parker

Book

House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe

1999

Donna Birdwell-Pheasant (editor) Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga (editor)

Annmarie Adams on House Life

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement

1999

Sara Ahmed

Decoratoresses

Book

Influential Interiors: Shaping 20th Century Style through Key Interior Designers

1999

Suzanne Trocme

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House

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

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

1998

Alice T. Friedman Maristella Casciato

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

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

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Feminism and Architecture

People Who Live in Glass Houses

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Elif Kurkcu on People who Live in Glass Houses

Book

The Scottish Home

1996

Annette Carruthers

Annmarie Adams on The Scottish Home

Book

All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890

1996

Maureen Ogle

Annmarie Adams on All the Modern Conveniences

Feminism and Architecture

Book

Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900

1996

Annmarie Adams

Despina Stratigakos on Architecture in the Family Way

Feminism and Architecture

Interiors: nineteenth-century essays on the ‘masculine’ and the ‘feminine’ room

1996

Juliet Kinchin

Maria Lederer on Interiors: nineteenth-century essays

Feminism and Architecture

Female Regulation of the Healthy Home

1996

Annmarie Adams

Ziyi-Jorrina Cheng on Female Regulation

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Domesticity, Gender

Negotiating domesticity: spatial productions of gender in modern architecture

1995

Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)

Feminism and Architecture

The Eichler Home: Intention and Experience in Postwar Suburbia

1995

Annmarie Adams

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Architecture and Social Reform in late-Victorian London

1994

Deborah E. B. Weiner

Elizabeth Darling on Architecture and Social Reform in late-Victorian London