Women Writing Architecture

Types

Glossary Terms

Title

Year

Author

Madame ETH Reading Room Fantastic refuge

Book

Shared space, Utopia

Le livre de la cité des dames fr

1405

Christine de Pizan

Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies Katia Frey on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Shared space

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021 Fantastic refuge

Fiction

Feminism, Shared space, Utopia

Herland

1915

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland

Book, Fiction

Shared space

Metropolis de

1926

Thea von Harbou

Eliana Perotti on Metropolis

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

The Tale of Genji

1935

Murasaki Shikibu Andrew Waley (translator)

Simona Mele, Julius Schwartz, Luca Bronca on The Tale of Genji

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Shared space

Seven Winters

1942

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on Seven Winters

Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Construction, Domesticity, Drawing, Feminism, Shared space, Women as architects

Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung de

1946

Berta Rahm

Emilie Appercé on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung Sonja Flury on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Shared space

The Shelbourne Hotel

1951

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel

What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates

Article

Shared space

Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning

1955

Helen Rosenau

Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Shared space

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960

Jane Jacobs

Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Book chapter

Shared space

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Shared space

The Generators of Diversity

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Shared space

The Need for Small Blocks

1961

Jane Jacobs

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space

Centre for Urban Studies: London Aspects of Change

1964

Ruth Glass

Book

Shared space, Utopia

L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités: une anthologie fr

1965

Françoise Choay

Katia Frey on L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités

Urban Design Group Library

Book

For children, Shared space

Planning for Play

1968

Lady Allen of Hurtwood

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

Manifesto, Manuscript

Care, Critique, Domesticity, Feminism, Shared space, Ways of thinking, Writing

Manifesto for Maintenance Art

1969

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Cultivated land, Shared space

New Lives, New Landscapes

1970

Nan Fairbrother

Emily Priest on New Lives, New Landscapes

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

Learning from Las Vegas

1972

Denise Scott Brown Robert Venturi Steven Izenour

The Book Society List Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Catalogue

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

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Utopia

Villages of Vision – A study of strange utopias

1975

Gillian Darley

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

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space

The Home of Man

1976

Barbara Ward

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Shared space

What would a non-sexist city be like?

1980

Dolores Hayden

Sasha Beketov on What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like?

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto

1981

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018) Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Shared space, Spectra