Women Writing Architecture

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

Shared space

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

2019

Sheetal Chhabria

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Shared space

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

2024

Jennifer Hart

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Film

Shared space, Vernacular

Madras – Vision of Day

1992

Sujatha Shankar

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Shared space, Spectra

Made Possible: Stories of Success by People with Learning Disabilities

2020

Saba Salman

Fiction

Care, Shared space, Vernacular, Women as architects

Ma maison Kassena fr

2007

Amélie Essessé

Diane Elliott Gayer on Amélie Essesse

The Author Speaks

Book

Cultivated land, Shared space

London Arboretum

2025

Judith Lösing

Book, Monograph

Care, Shared space, Vernacular

Little Spaces : Kumiko Inui + ja

2014

Kumiko Inui

Meg Marumoto on Little Spaces : Kumiko Inui +

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Online article

Shared space

Lighting the way for women and girls

2021

Hoa Yang

Book chapter

Contact zones, Shared space

Liberation-era Architecture in Ghana

2020

Janet Berry Hess

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Article

Gender, Shared space

Let’s sign bathrooms by amenity, not by gender

2018

Simona Castricum

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space

Lessons from the British and French New Towns, Paradise Lost

2021

Natalia Krysiak Bob Colenutt David Fée

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

Learning from Las Vegas

1972

Denise Scott Brown Robert Venturi Steven Izenour

Memories of the Women of Graubünden 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

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Le Dit du Genji de Murasaki-shikibu illustré par la peinture traditionnelle japonaise fr

2007

Estelle Bauer Murasaki Shikibu

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Book chapter

Shared space

La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space

1996

Esther da Costa Meyer Patricia Conway (editor) Diana Agrest (editor) Joan Ockman (editor)

Book

Shared space, Utopia

L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités: une anthologie fr

1965

Françoise Choay

Katia Frey on L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités

bodymind

Online article

Shared space, Spectra

Keywords: Disability

2021

Sami Schalk

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Domesticity, Shared space, Vernacular

Kentucky Is My Fate

2009

bell hooks

Autobiography

Shared space, Ways of feeling

Just Kids

2010

Patti Smith

Huriye Nur Aksoy on Just Kids

Archeoastronomy and Collective Rituals

Book

Environmentalism, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Jantar Mantar, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh’s Observatory in Delhi

2010

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Invited and Invented Spaces of Participation : Neoliberal Citizenship and Feminists`Expanded Notion of Politics

2004

Faranak Miraftab

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Book chapter

Shared space

Invisibility Work? How starting from Dis/ability challenged Normative Social, Spatial and Material Practices

2018

Jos Boys

The Architecture of Accra

Book chapter

Shared space

Introduction, Ghana

2020

Kuukuwa Manful

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Book chapter

Gender, Shared space

Into the Labyrinth

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Online article

Shared space, Spectra

Imagining a Black, Queer Aboriginal Melbourne

2018

Timmah Ball

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

Shared space, Ways of thinking

I Will Draw A Map Of What You Never See, Endeavours in Rhythmanalysis

2019

Anna Jäger Saskia Köbschall Elena Agudio

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Shared space

Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism

2017

Nicole Kalms

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space

How to study public life

2013

Birgitte Svarre Jan Gehl

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

Online article

Shared space

How to design cities for everyone

2020

Fiona Murphy

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Online article

Gender, Shared space, Spectra

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

2020

Jess Myers

Expanding Agency

Book

Shared space

Housing, Architecture, and the Edge Condition: Dublin is Building, 1935-1975

2019

Ellen Rowley

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Contact zones, Shared space

Housing Cairo The Informal Response

2016

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (editor) Marc Angelil (editor)

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965

2015

Barbara Miller Lane

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

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)

spacegirls girltopia 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