Women Writing Architecture

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Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Feminism, Shared space

Auf Den Zweiten Blick: Städtebauliche Frauenprojekte Im Vergleich: 1 (Beiträge Zur Planungs- Und Architektursoziologie) de

2004

Anke Schröder (editor) Barbara Zibell (editor)

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

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

Expanding Agency

Book

Women and The City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940

2002

Sarah Deutsch

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

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)

Book

Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum

2000

Kalpana Sharma

Nandini Somaya Sampat on Rediscovering Dharavi

Finnish Women Writing

Cities as Texts: Urban Practices Represented or Forgotten in Art History

1999

A K Nevanlinna

Book

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

1998

Nancy Tomes

Annmarie Adams on The Gospel of Germs

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

The Architecture of an Island

1998

Barbara Sansoni Ronald Lewcock Laki Senanayake

Space as Matrix

Book

The Power of Place

1997

Dolores Hayden

Emilie Appercé on The Power of Place

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)

Book

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

1996

Beatriz Colomina

On motherhood Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender, Motherhood, Shared space

Claiming Public Space: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

1996

Susana Torre

Gender, Shared space

The Lesbian Flâneur

1995

Sally Munt

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Grenzen de

1994

Flora Ruchat-Roncati

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Architecture and Social Reform in late-Victorian London

1994

Deborah E. B. Weiner

Elizabeth Darling on Architecture and Social Reform in late-Victorian London

S AM Publications

Book

Architekturführer Basel. Die Baugeschichte der Stadt und ihrer Umgebung de

1994

Dorothee Huber

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

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies

Book

Feminism, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

1993

Gillian Rose

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender, Shared space

Space and Status

1992

Daphne Spain

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

Film

Shared space, Vernacular

Madras – Vision of Day

1992

Sujatha Shankar

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Nationalstraßen und Landschaftsgestaltung de

1991

Flora Ruchat-Roncati

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Towns and Town-Making Principles

1991

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Andres Duany

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender, Shared space

Into the Labyrinth

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

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

1990

Nancy Fraser

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture

Article

Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School

1990

Rina Swentzell

Justine Valois on Conflicting Landscape Values Alexa Sharp on Conflicting Landscape Values

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

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza es

1987

Gloria Anzaldúa

Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak?

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

On success

Essay

Shared space, Ways of feeling

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

1984

Audre Lorde

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto

1981

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture

Article

What would a non-sexist city be like?

1980

Dolores Hayden

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

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

The Home of Man

1976

Barbara Ward

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Utopia

Villages of Vision – A study of strange utopias

1975

Gillian Darley

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

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

Learning from Las Vegas

1972

Denise Scott Brown Robert Venturi Steven Izenour

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Cultivated land, Shared space

New Lives, New Landscapes

1970

Nan Fairbrother

Emily Priest on New Lives, New Landscapes

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

Urban Design Group Library

Book

For children, Shared space

Planning for Play

1968

Lady Allen of Hurtwood

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

Centre for Urban Studies: London Aspects of Change

1964

Ruth Glass

Architekturtheorie (2020)

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961

Jane Jacobs

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

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

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

Article

Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning

1955

Helen Rosenau

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

The Shelbourne Hotel

1951

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel

Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Construction, Domesticity, Feminism, Representation, 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