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Women Writing Architecture

At the heart of Women Writing Architecture is this ever-growing annotated bibliography, an open-access list of texts written by women about architecture. Created collaboratively through conversations, invitations and spontaneous suggestions, it is offered as a resource for gathering lists of texts, for encouragement, for finding new writers, and for insight into what is happening in the vivid realm where women speak up for themselves.

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

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Topics

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Article

Gender, Shared space

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

2019

Caroline Criado Perez

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

2020

Jess Myers

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space

To design safer parks for women, city planners must listen to their stories

2018

Nicole Kalms

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space

More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us

2019

Nicole Kalms

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space

Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life

2016

Yasminah Beebeejaun

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space

The queer city: How to design more inclusive public space

2021

Pippa Catterall Ammar Azzouz

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Article

Gender, Shared space

Let’s sign bathrooms by amenity, not by gender

2018

Simona Castricum

Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

Feminism, Gender

The architect as genius: feminism and the aesthetics of exclusion

1991

Christine Battersby

Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

Gender, Intersectional Feminism

You might think you know me

2018

A. L. Hu

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

Article

Gender, Women as architects

By Women for Women: Modernism, Architecture and Gender in Building the New Jewish Society in Mandatory Palestine

2016

Sigal Davidi

Madame ETH

Book

Gender

Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “sex” Philosophy. Gender studies

1993

Judith Butler

Madame ETH

Book

Gender

Les Guérillères fr

1969

Monique Wittig

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Article

Colonial Situations, Gender, Travel

Mobility, Gender and Empire in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India (1812): Mobility, Gender and Empire

2017

Onni Gust

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

The Gendered Republic

1988

Joan B. Landes

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Colonial Situations, Gender

South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text

2011

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

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Article

Gender

Invisible Contributions: The Problem of History and Women Architects

1998

Julie Willis

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe

2003

Helen Hills

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

Gender

2019

Dúnlaith Bird

Reading Room

Book

Gender

Queer Phenomenology Orientations, Objects, Others

2006

Sara Ahmed

Reading Room

Book, Graphic novel

Gender

I’m Every Woman sv

2018

Liv Strömquist (illustrator)

Emilie Appercé on I’m every woman

Reading Room

Book

Gender

Blick-Wechsel: Konstruktionen von Männlickeit und Weiblichkeit in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte de

1989

Ines Lindner (editor)

Reading Room

Fiction

Gender

La Mujer Habitada es

1988

Gioconda Belli

Reading Room

Book

Chratz & Quer. Sieben Frauenstadtrundgänge in Zürich de

1995

Verein Frauenstadtrundgang Zürich (editor)

Book

Gender

Can The Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

2021

Paul B. Preciado Frank Wynne (translator)

Reading Room
Conversations in Preparation

Critique, Domesticity, Drawing, Environmentalism, Feminism, Food, For children, Gender, Oral history, Shared space, Ways of thinking

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

1973

Kirsten Grimstad (editor) Susan Renni (editor)

Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Gender

Lecture Three : Cross-Cladding

2007

Katarina Bonnevier

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Article

Gender

Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept

2005

Raewyn Connell James W. Messerschmidt

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Gender

Manifeste contra-sexuel fr

2000

Paul B. Preciado

Book

Gender

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

2003

bell hooks

WAI Think Tank on Teaching Community

Loudreaders

Gender

Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin

2020

Ged Ribas Goody

Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Loudreaders

Article

Gender

Queer Cartographies fr es

2012

Paul B. Preciado

Loudreaders on Queer Cartographies

Article

Gender

Learning From the Virus

2020

Paul B. Preciado Molly Stevens (translator)

Loudreaders on Learning From the Virus

Book

Gender

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

2017

Riley Snorton

WAI Think Tank on Black on Both Sides

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Gender, Women as architects

No more Frauenghetto, bitte de

2017

Antje Stahl

Helen Thomas on No more Frauenghetto, bitte

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Gender

G+L im Februar 2020: Frauen in der Planung de

2020

Vera Baeriswyl (editor) Theresa Ramsich (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Lecture

Gender, Women as architects

Parity Talks II: Learning from Institutional Practices and Working Tools

2017

Parity Group/Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Gender

Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London

2001

Jane Rendell

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender

African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender

1995

Labelle Prussin (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Gender, Monography

Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In

2011

Jasmine Rault

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender

Testo yonqui es

2008

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie

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

Book

Gender

Ce sexe qui n’en est pas un fr

1977

Luce Irigaray

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender

Simians, Cyborgs and Women

1991

Donna Haraway

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism, Gender

Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

1997

Greta Gaard

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

Fiction

Gender

Orlando: A Biography

1928

Virginia Woolf

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando

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

Book

Gender

Untenrum frei de

2018

Margarete Stokowski

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

Book

Gender

Der Frauen Atlas de

2020

Joni Seager

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

Book

Gender

Frauen forschen anders: Wie weiblich ist die Wissenschaft? de

2000

Londa Schiebinger

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

Book

Feminism, Gender

I’m a Queerfeminist Cyborg, That’s Okay de

2018

Mika Murstein

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

Book

Gender

Das Geschlecht, das nicht eins ist de

1979

Luce Irigaray

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

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

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

Book

Gender

Die Neuerfindung der Natur, Primaten, Cyborgs und Frauen de

1995

Donna Haraway

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

Book

Gender

Trans. Frau. Sein.: Aspekte geschlechtlicher Marginalisierung de

2020

Felicia Ewert

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

Book

Feminism, Gender

King Kong Theorie de

2007

Virginie Despentes

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Gender, Shared space

Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance: Cedric Price’s Fun Palace

2001

Mary Louise Lobsinger Sarah Williams Goldhagen (editor) Réjean Legault (editor)

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, 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

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

Reading Room
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Gender

The Mediated Plant

2019

Teresa Castro

Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant

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

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II

1996

Joan Ockman Diana Agrest (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor) Patricia Conway (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Gender

The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Architecture and Design: Three Case Studies

2019

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Book

Gender

Modern Women: Modern Artists at the Museum of Modern Art

2010

Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Undressing Architecture: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity

1994

Mary McLeod Deborah Fausch (editor) Paulette Singley (editor) Zvi Efrat (editor) Rodophe El-Khoury (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Battle Lines: E. 1027

1996

Beatriz Colomina Diana Agrest (editor) Patricia Conway (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Gender

Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

1986

Joan Wallach Scott

Book

Gender

An Emancipated Place

2001

Brinda Somaya Urvashi Mehta

Brinda Somaya on An Emancipated Place

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Women in Architecture: A Contemporary Perspective

1990

Clare Lorenz

Book

Gender

Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen de

1932

Johanna Böhm

Despina Stratigakos on Das Haus der Alleinstehenden Frauen

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

Would they still call me a Diva?

2019

Jane Hall

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

Article

Gender

Only an Equitable Profession Can Design an Equitable Society

2020

Harriet Harriss

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Article

Gender

Bildbetrachtung: Die Architektin Elsa Burckhardt-Blum de

2019

Eliana Perotti

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book chapter, Catalogue

Gender

Reconstructed: How Women Architects in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany Countered Negative Images of Female Builders

2012

Despina Stratigakos Mary Pepchinski (editor)

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book chapter, Catalogue

Gender

Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach. An Architect in the Building Industry of West Berlin

2017

Sabine Weissler Mary Pepchinski (editor)

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

The (in)Famous Anca Petrescu. Authorship and authority in Romanian Communist architecture, 1977-1989

2016

Dana Vais Mary Pepchinski (editor) Mariann Simon (editor)

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Article

Gender

Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize

2012

Hilde Heynen

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

Why Was Patty Hopkins Photoshopped Out of This Image?

2014

Vanessa Quirk

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

Working in the Shadows

2012

Ann Lok Lui

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Gender

“Public Man” and “Private Woman”: Discourse and Practice in Western Societies de

2003

Ulla Terlinden

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Gender

Frauenfragen im Wohnungswesen de

1950

Wera Meyer-Waldeck