Women Writing Architecture

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Glossary Terms

Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

Gender

You might think you know me

2018

A. L. Hu

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

Gender

Would they still call me a Diva?

2019

Jane Hall

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

Gender

Working in the Shadows

2012

Ann Lok Lui

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Women in Architecture: A Contemporary Perspective

1990

Clare Lorenz

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

Gender

Why Was Patty Hopkins Photoshopped Out of This Image?

2014

Vanessa Quirk

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Wera Meyer-Waldeck. Architektin der Reichsbahnbaudirektion Berlin en Falkensee de

2024

Josenia Hervás y Heras

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Wera Meyer-Waldeck y Hilde Weström: Dos arquitectas en la Interbau Berlín 1957 es

2021

Josenia Hervás y Heras

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Book chapter, Monograph

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Wera Meyer- Waldeck

2019

Josenia Hervás y Heras

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Monograph

Domesticity, Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Vivir… así (So… wohnen). Wera Meyer-Waldeck como parte de una red de arquitectas implicadas en la forma de habitar. es

2023

Josenia Hervás y Heras

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

Capitalocene, Gender

Unruhig bleiben: Die Verwandtschaft der Arten im Chthuluzän de

2018

Donna Haraway

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)

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

Book

Gender, Spectra

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism, Gender, Spectra

Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

1997

Greta Gaard

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

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Essay

Gender

Throwing like a girl and other essays in feminist philosophy and social theory

1990

Iris Marion Young

Lulu Crouzet on Throwing Like a Girl

Gender, Spectra

These are the Axes

2012

Mark Aguhar

Tatjana Blaser on These are the Axes

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe

2003

Helen Hills

After 8 recommends

Book

Gender

The Shabbiness of Beauty

2018

Moyra Davey Peter Hujar

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

The Sex of Architecture

1996

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

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space, Spectra

The queer city: How to design more inclusive public space

2021

Pippa Catterall Ammar Azzouz

The Book Society List Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Domesticity, 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

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

Gender

The Mediated Plant

2019

Teresa Castro

Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant

Gender, Shared space

The Lesbian Flâneur

1995

Sally Munt

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Fiction

Feminism, Gender

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Fantastic refuge

Book

Gender, Shared space

The Hearing Trumpet

1976

Leonora Carrington Pablo Weisz Carrington (illustrator)

Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet

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

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

The Gendered Republic

1988

Joan B. Landes

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

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

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism, Gender

The Beauty Myth

2002

Naomi Wolf

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Lecture, Monograph

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

The Bauhaus Women Architects: Dicker, Meyer-Waldeck and Wilke

2022

Josenia Hervás y Heras

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951

Amabel Williams-Ellis

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Women as architects

The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice

1996

Francesca Hughes (editor)

Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice

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

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)

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender, Spectra

Testo yonqui es

2008

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie

Cyberfeminism Index A Book I Love Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender

Testo Junkie

2013

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Gender

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

2003

bell hooks

WAI Think Tank on Teaching Community

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, Care, 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 Seounju Kim on Staying with the Trouble

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender, Shared space

Space and Status

1992

Daphne Spain

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)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Feminism, Gender, Utopia

Soon

2018

Maria Lind

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender

Solving the Gender Puzzle

1998

Kate Bornstein

Feminism, Gender, Ways of thinking

SOFA 2 : Dwelling – Drifting and Staying ko

2021

Society of Feminist Architects

Soyeong Park on SOFA magazine

Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender, Spectra

Simians, Cyborgs and Women

1991

Donna Haraway

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)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism, Gender

Sexual Politics

1970

Kate Millett

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Article

Gender

Sex in public

1998

Lauren Berlant Michael Warner