Women Writing Architecture

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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

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The City as Resource. Text and Projects 2005- 2014

2014

Myriam Perret (editor) Tim Rieniets (editor) Nicolas Kretschmann (editor) Chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse (editor)

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Feminism, Shared space

The Case for Safe Spaces

2016

Anne-Laure White

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The Art of Building a Garden City. Designing new communities for the 21st Century

2017

Kate Henderson Katy Lock Hugh Ellis

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

The Architecture of an Island

1998

Barbara Sansoni Ronald Lewcock Laki Senanayake

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Thanks For The View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit

2020

Danielle Aubert Lana Cavar

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

Book

Feminism, Shared space

Terra Incognita?: Der Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich de

2013

Shelley Berlowitz (editor) Elisabeth Joris (editor) Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli (editor)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Subaltern Bodies in the Digital Urban Imaginary

2018

Alison Brunn

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender, Shared space

Space and Status

1992

Daphne Spain

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Socially Restorative Urbanism. The theory, process and of Experiemics

2013

Alice Mathers Kevin Thwaites Ian Simkins

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Seven Winters

1942

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on Seven Winters

S AM Publications

Book

S AM 02 – Instant Urbanism: Auf den Spuren der Situationisten in zeitgenössischer Architektur und Urbanismus de

2007

Francesca Ferguson

S AM Publications

Book

Gentleness, Shared space

S AM 01 – Unaufgeräumt / As Found. Urbane Reanimationen und die Architektur des Minimaleingriffs / Urban Reanimations and the Minimal Intervention de

2007

Francesca Ferguson

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Cultivated land, Shared space

Ruralism. The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World

2016

Vanessa Miriam Carlow

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy

1990

Nancy Fraser

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Rethinking Intimacy and the City

2020

Alexandra Pereira-Edwards

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Care, Shared space

Restorative Cities Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing

2021

Jenny Roe Layla McCay

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Contact zones, Shared space

Resilience for All. Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design

2018

Barbara Brown Wilson

Book

Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum

2000

Kalpana Sharma

Nandini Somaya Sampat on Rediscovering Dharavi

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Book

Gender, Shared space

Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination

2010

Sheila L. Cavanagh

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Public Space Design and Social Cohesion

2019

Patricia Aelbrecht (editor) Quentin Stevens (editor)

ISBN+ – A bookshop selection

Book

Domesticity, Representation, Shared space

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan

2020

Andi Schmied

Book

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

1996

Beatriz Colomina

Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Domesticity, Shared space

Pride and Prejudice

1813

Jane Austen

Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Book

Domesticity, Shared space, Vernacular

Potato Flowers 감자꽃 ko

2017

Jeeyoun Kim

Soojung Yi on Potato Flowers

Urban Design Group Library

Book

For children, Shared space

Planning for Play

1968

Lady Allen of Hurtwood

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Performative Urbanism. Generating and Designing Urban Space

2015

Sophie Wolfrum (editor) Nikolai Frhr. v. Brandis (editor)

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Life work, Shared space

People Cities The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl

2019

Annie Matan Peter Newman

Book

Friendship, Shared space

Participation

2006

Claire Bishop (editor)

Article

Paris ville free fr

2022

Soline Nivet

Article

Shared space, Ways of thinking

Paradigm Shift 현대건축은 자신의 의미를 잃었다 ko

2018

Ryul Song Christian Schweitzer

Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Capitalocene, Shared space

Outlaw Territories – Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

2016

Felicity D. Scott

Friendship, Shared space, Vernacular

On the Meaning of Gossip

2018

Silvia Federici

Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip

spacegirls girltopia Gentleness Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Gentleness, Shared space, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking, Writing

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

2003

Lisa Robertson

Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

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

New Life in Public Squares

2020

Marie Burns

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, and the Civic Realm

2014

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Nationalstraßen und Landschaftsgestaltung de

1991

Flora Ruchat-Roncati

The Architecture of Accra

Article

My kind of town. Accra.

2005

Lesley Lokko

Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat

Book

Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser

2005

Andrea Fraser

Space as Matrix

Book, Online resource

more that one (fragile) thing at a time

2016

muf architecture/art

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

Book

Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History fr

2017

Michèle Dagenais

Annmarie Adams on Montreal, City of Water

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Modernist Estates – Europe The buildings and people who live in them today

2019

Stefi Orazi

The Architecture of Accra

Contact zones, Shared space

Modernist Architecture in Ghana: Shifting Focus to the Names That Really Matter

2024

Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah

Metropolis de

1926

Thea von Harbou

Eliana Perotti on Metropolis

Can Writing Be Activism? 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

Expanding Agency

Book

Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

2019

Sheetal Chhabria