Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Book chapter, Essay

Domesticity, Feminism

Homeplace, a site of resistance

1990

bell hooks

Jabili Sirineni reading bell hooks as an architect

Why Make Books

Book, Catalogue

Care, Companion Text, Domesticity

Home Economics

2016

Shumi Bose (editor)

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement

1999

Sara Ahmed

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Hitler at Home

2015

Despina Stratigakos

Annmarie Adams on Hitler at Home

Copyright Bookshop recommends Hochparterre Bücher recommends

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Hidden in Plain Sight: Politics and Design in State-subsidized Residential Architecture

2021

Marta Rocha Moreira (editor) Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos (editor) Virgílio Borges Pereiro (editor) Sérgio Dias Silva (editor)

Copyright Bookshop recommends

Book

Habiter autrement : quand l’architecture libère la maison Habiter autrement : quand l’architecture libère la maison fr

2021

Maryse Quinton André Tavares

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

2008

Ana Luísa Rodrigues

Joana Ribeiro on Casas com nome

Book

Contact zones, Domesticity, Shared space

Gli spazi delle donne. Casa, Lavoro, Società. it

2024

Michela Bassanelli (editor) Imma Forino (editor)

Annamaria Prandi on Gli spazi delle donne

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Gern modern? Wohnkonzepte für Berlin nach 1945 de

2022

Nicola von Albrecht

The Architecture of Accra

Film, Online article

Domesticity, Shared space

GAEC Residence, 1960s

2021

Divine Fiave Alice Johnson

Disabling Environments

Article

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

2012

Sibel Seda Dazkir Marilyn Read

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

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

From the Margins to the Center: Urban housing for single Jewish women in pre-state Israel

2019

Sigal Davidi

Researching Encounters

Article

Domesticity, Food

From doma to daidokoro: Japanese kitchens

2022

Michelle L Hauk

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Feminist Politics and Domestic Life

1981

Dolores Hayden

Feminism and Architecture

Female Regulation of the Healthy Home

1996

Annmarie Adams

Ziyi-Jorrina Cheng on Female Regulation

Feminism and Architecture

Fear in a Handful of Dust

2020

Victoria Rosner

Danna Nishmas on Fear in a Handful of Dust

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

Matéria Prima – A bookshop selection

Book

Domesticity, Learning, Shared space

Escola Infinita pt

2023

Eva Gonçalves

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Domesticity, Gender

Electricity is Her Servant

1981

Carol Barkin

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Essay

Domesticity, Feminism

Ein Zimmer für sich allein de

1929

Virginia Woolf

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

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

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Construction, Domesticity

Dust Free Friends

2015

Stephanie Macdonald Tom Emerson

Hochparterre Bücher recommends

Book

Drinnen – Wie uns Räume verändern de

2021

Emily Anthes Johanna Wais

Feminism and Architecture

Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture

2021

Lilian Chee

Nuoya Fang on Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Domesticity at War

2007

Beatriz Colomina

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)

Zofia Hansen in Szumin

Dom jako forma otwarta : Szumin Hansenów polish

2014

Aleksandra Kedziorek (editor) Filip Springer

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Die neue Mutter de

1987

Hedwig Dohm Wally Zepler

Reading Room

Article

Die moderne Frau und die Handarbeit de

1928

Maria Geroe-Tobler

Memories of the Women of Graubünden

Article

Domesticity, Feminism, Women as architects

Die Hausfrauenrolle de

1978

Christiane Erlemann

Decoratoresses

Domesticity, Women as architects

Designers on Designers

2003

Susan Gray

Book

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

2004

Anne Clendinning

Annmarie Adams on Demons of Domesticity

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Deep Spring Water 샘이깊은물 ko

1984

A tree with deep roots (editor)

Hochparterre Bücher recommends

Book

Come Together – The Architecture of Multigenerational Living

2021

Joann Plockova (editor) Elli Stuhler (editor) Robert Klanten (editor)

Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Chez soi : une odyssée de l’espace domestique fr

2018

Mona Chollet

The Author Speaks

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Chambres d’Amis

2023

An Fonteyne

Copyright Bookshop recommends

Book

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

2021

June Williamson Ellen Dunham Jones

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

Article

Caring for Parents: Modern dwellings for elderly German Jewish immigrants in Mandatory Palestine

2020

Sigal Davidi

indiana collective’s reading list Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte 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 Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip

Cartha 2018: Building Identity

Domesticity, Representation

Building Identity – Conen Sigl Architekten

2018

Maria Conen Raoul Sigl

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism

1988

Polly Wynn Allen

Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Construction, Domesticity

Box Furniture: How to Make a Hundred Useful Articles for the Home

1909

Louise Brigham

Emilie Appercé on Box Furniture

Construction, Domesticity, Vernacular

Big Swiss

2023

Jen Beagin

Urban Design Group Library

Book

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

2015

Frances Holliss

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Monograph

Domesticity, Women as architects

Better Furnishings for West German Homes Urged by Woman Architect

1951

Wera Meyer-Waldeck

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

Bauhaus Women

Book

Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

2014

T’ai Smith

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

Loké

Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement

2003

Nathalie du Pasquier (illustrator) Leonard Koren

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