Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Feminism and Architecture

Book chapter, Online article

Spectra

The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage

2016

Gail Dubrow

Feminism and Architecture

Spectra

A Queer Analysis of Eileen Gray’s E.1027

2005

Katarina Bonnevier

Article

Feminism, Spectra

Writing Place. Abilities and Disabilities of Feministic Academic Writing in Place Research

2009

Sofia Cele

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Spectra, Ways of feeling

Behind Straight Curtains Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture

2007

Katarina Bonnevier

Milena Buchwalder on Behind Straight Curtains

Cyberfeminism Index

Book

Spectra

The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities

2012

micha cárdenas Elle Mehrmand Amy Sara Carroll

Cyberfeminism Index

Book

Spectra

Race in Cyberspace

2000

Lisa Nakamura Beth E. Kolko

The Book Society List

Essay

Feminism, Gender, Spectra

Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender

2020

Sally Stein

Parity in History?

Article

Contact zones, Spectra

Choosing the Margin as a Space for Radical Openness

1989

bell hooks

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Fiction

Spectra

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus

1818

Mary Shelley

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism, Spectra

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

2003

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Spectra

Transforming Whiteness in Art Institutions

2018

Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space, Spectra

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

2020

Jess Myers

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space, Spectra

The queer city: How to design more inclusive public space

2021

Pippa Catterall Ammar Azzouz

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Shared space, Spectra

Imagining a Black, Queer Aboriginal Melbourne

2018

Timmah Ball

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

Feminism, Shared space, Spectra

Designing collective access: a feminist disability theory of universal design

2013

Aimi Hamraie

Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

Feminism, Spectra, Women as architects

Dead Fish on the Beach: The Problem With “Women in Architecture”

2017

Khensani De Klerk

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism

Feminism, Spectra

Intersectionality and Indigenous Feminism: An Aboriginal Woman’s Perspective

2014

Celeste Liddle

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

From the Margins to the Center: Urban housing for single Jewish women in pre-state Israel

2019

Sigal Davidi

Madame ETH

Book

Gender, Spectra

Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “sex” Philosophy. Gender studies

1993

Judith Butler

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Contact zones, Spectra

Assembling the Centre – Architecture for Indigenous Cultures Australia and Beyond

2016

Janet McGaw Anoma Pieris

Covid Diary, January 2022

Contact zones, Spectra, Ways of feeling

The Golden Notebook

1962

Doris Lessing

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Care, Environmentalism, Spectra

The Body We Care for: Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis

2004

Vinciane Despret

Reading Room

Book

Gender, Spectra

Queer Phenomenology Orientations, Objects, Others

2006

Sara Ahmed

Reading Room

Book

Contact zones, Spectra

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

2019

Kathryn Yusoff

Feminism, Spectra

Architects Who Make a Fuss

2017

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Torsten Lange

Amy Perkins on Architects Who Make a Fuss

Book

Gender, Spectra

Can The Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

2021

Paul B. Preciado Frank Wynne (translator)

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Article

Gender, Spectra

Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept

2005

Raewyn Connell James W. Messerschmidt

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Spectra

Countersexual Manifesto

2018

Paul B. Preciado

Loudreaders

Gender, Spectra

Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin

2020

Ged Ribas Goody

Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021) Loudreaders

Article

Gender, Spectra

Queer Cartographies fr es

2012

Paul B. Preciado

Loudreaders on Queer Cartographies

Loudreaders

Book

Spectra

Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism

2019

Arielle Azoulay

Loudreaders on Potential History

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Gender, Spectra

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

2017

Riley Snorton

WAI Think Tank on Black on Both Sides

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Spectra

The Trouble with Women Artists: Reframing the History of Art

2019

Laure Adler Camille Viéville

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender, Spectra

Testo yonqui es

2008

Paul B. Preciado

Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie

Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Gender, Spectra

Simians, Cyborgs and Women

1991

Donna Haraway

Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)

Article

Feminism, Spectra

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: a Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

1989

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism, Gender, Spectra

Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

1997

Greta Gaard

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?

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

Book

Feminism, Gender, Spectra

I’m a Queerfeminist Cyborg, That’s Okay de

2018

Mika Murstein

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

Gender, Spectra

Trans. Frau. Sein.: Aspekte geschlechtlicher Marginalisierung de

2020

Felicia Ewert

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Monography, Spectra

Female Human Animal

2018

Chloe Aridjis Josh Appignanesi

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Domesticity, Spectra

The Uncanny Architect: Fears of Lesbian Builders and Deviant Homes in Modern Germany

2005

Despina Stratigakos

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Capitalocene, Environmentalism, Spectra

Oneness versus the 1%

2018

Vandana Shiva

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Shared space, Spectra

Made Possible: Stories of Success by People with Learning Disabilities

2020

Saba Salman

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement

1999

Sara Ahmed