Women Writing Architecture

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Urban Design Group Library Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism, Shared space, Spectra

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

2020

Leslie Kern

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)

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)

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Generators of Diversity

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Need for Small Blocks

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Feminist theory and Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Public Space

1993

Seyla Benhabib

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

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

1990

Nancy Fraser

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

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

1996

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

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto

1981

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Metropolis de

1926

Thea von Harbou

Eliana Perotti on Metropolis

Book

Shared space, Utopia

L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités: une anthologie fr

1965

Françoise Choay

Katia Frey on L’urbanisme, utopie et réalités

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

Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum

2000

Kalpana Sharma

Nandini Somaya Sampat on Rediscovering Dharavi

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Domesticity, Shared space

‘What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?’: Jane Austen’s Use of Bath in ‘Persuasion’

2001

Keiko Parker

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

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

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Shared space, Spectra

Made Possible: Stories of Success by People with Learning Disabilities

2020

Saba Salman

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016

Olivia Laing

Architekturtheorie (2020)

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961

Jane Jacobs

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Nationalstraßen und Landschaftsgestaltung de

1991

Flora Ruchat-Roncati

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Grenzen de

1994

Flora Ruchat-Roncati

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

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Shared space

Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism

2017

Nicole Kalms

Book

Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914

2017

Leslie Topp

Annmarie Adams on Freedom and the Cage

Book

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

1998

Nancy Tomes

Annmarie Adams on The Gospel of Germs

Book

A city for children: women, architecture, and the charitable landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950

2014

Marta Gutman

Annmarie Adams on A City for Children

Book

Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History fr

2017

Michèle Dagenais

Annmarie Adams on Montreal, City of Water

Book

The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820

2013

Dana Arnold

Annmarie Adams on The Spaces of the Hospital

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

Loké

Article

Capitalocene, Shared space

The Pandemic is a Portal

2020

Arundhati Roy

Erandi de Silva on Pandemic is a Portal Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi

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

Book

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960

Jane Jacobs

Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities