Women Writing Architecture

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Glossary Terms

Article

Shared space, Ways of thinking

Paradigm Shift 현대건축은 자신의 의미를 잃었다 ko

2018

Ryul Song Christian Schweitzer

Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine

Representation, Ways of thinking

“Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move”: An ANT’s View of Architecture

2017

Albena Yaneva Bruno Latour

Lulu Crouzet on Give me a Gun

Building in Stone Today

Book

Utopia, Ways of thinking

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

2017

Albena Yaneva

Building in Stone Today Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature A Book I Love ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Anthology, Book

Capitalocene, Cultivated land, Gentleness, Ways of thinking

The Mushroom at the End of the World

2015

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Cristina Fusco on The Mushroom at the End of the World

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

Book

Ways of thinking

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

2015

Angela Davis

Reading Room

Book

Ways of thinking

Politics Of Study

2015

Sidsel Meineche Hansen (editor) Tom Vandeputte (editor)

Book, Essay

Ways of thinking

The Architect as Worker : Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

2015

Peggy Deamer (editor)

Ji Min An on The Architect as Worker

Disabling Environments

Report

Care, Ways of thinking

A definition and classification of status epilepticus: report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus

2015

Hannah Cock Ingrid Scheffer Andrea Rossetti Eugen Trinka

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

Lecture

Ways of thinking

Making Feminist Memories: Woman in Art: From Type to Personality by Helen Rosenau

2014

Griselda Pollock

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism, Ways of thinking

Women Who Make a Fuss: The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf

2014

Isabelle Stengers Vinciane Despret

bodymind

Spectra, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

Our Body and Mind are One

2014

Helen Payne

Why Make Books

Anthology, Book, Essay

Critique, Ways of thinking, Writing

Architecture Words 13 – Flash in the Pan

2014

Sylvia Lavin

Reading Room

Book

Ways of thinking

Self-Organised

2013

Stine Hebert (editor) Anne Szefer Karlsen (editor)

Building in Stone Today Why Make Books

Anthology, Book, Essay

Critique, Ways of thinking, Women as architects

Architecture Words 12 – Stones Against Diamonds

2013

Lina Bo Bardi

After 8 recommends Madame ETH

Book

Ways of thinking

Money Shot

2012

Rae Armantrout

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Journal

Critique, Feminism, Gender, Ways of thinking

Against Innocence : Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety

2012

Jackie Wang

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

Retour en Orient. Villa impériale de Katsura, Kyoto (J), 1615-1633 fr

2010

Claudia Mion Giovanni Petrolito

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

Construire et comprendre. La nature de l’Homme et la nature des choses fr

2010

Adriana Patrascu

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

L’Être de l’Espace. Structure et signification fr

2010

Adriana Patrascu

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Ways of thinking

Shared considerations on matter. Fragments de la série photographique « su marmo », de Grazia cantoni fr

2010

Maria Grazia Cantoni

Ways of thinking

Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things

2010

Jane Bennett

Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain

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

Ways of thinking

Theory and Philosophy of Architecture

2009

Lina Bo Bardi

Natália Peťková on Theory and Philosophy of Architecture

Building in Stone Today

Book

Representation, Ways of thinking

Made by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. An Ethnography of Design

2009

Albena Yaneva

Film

Spectra, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

Examined Life

2008

Astra Taylor

Jessie Buckle on What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Ways of thinking

Toward a Global Idea of Race

2007

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Book chapter, Essay

Representation, Ways of thinking, Writing

The Poetics of Urban Inscription. From metaphorical cognition to counter-representation.

2007

Laura Ruggeri Jane Rendell (editor)

Rebecca Billi on The Poetics of Urban Inscription

Disabling Environments

Article

Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

Humans prefer curved visual objects

2006

Maital Neta

Intersectional Discrimination

Book

Gentleness, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

When Things Fall Apart

2005

Pema Chödrön

Erandi de Silva on When Things Fall Apart

Critique, Ways of thinking

Eva Hesse: Lost for Words

2004

Phyllida Barlow

Huiyao Fu on Eva Hesse: Lost for Words and Louise Bourgeois: Conversation with Frances Morris

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

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism, Ways of thinking

Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What it is and Why it Matters

2000

Karen Warren

On success

Book

Ways of thinking

All About Love: New Visions

1999

bell hooks

Book

Cultivated land, Ways of thinking

The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society

1997

Lucy R. Lippard

Mariana Siracusa on The Lure of the Local

Critique, Ways of thinking, Women as architects

Conversation with Kazuyo Sejima

1996

Kazuyo Sejima Koji Taki

Kihyun Ahn on Conversation with Kazuyo Sejima

Gentleness

Book

Gentleness, Ways of thinking, Writing

Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi

1995

Jennifer Bloomer

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

Feminism, Ways of thinking

Contingent foundations: Feminism and the question of ‘postmodernism’

1994

Judith Butler

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

Book

Ways of thinking

Das Geschlecht des Wissens: Frauen denken die Wissenschaft neu de

1994

Sandra Harding

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Ways of thinking

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

1994

bell hooks

WAI Think Tank on Teaching to Transgress

Book

Ways of thinking

Organicism in Nineteenth Century Architecture: An Inquiry into Its Theoretical and Philosophical Background

1993

Caroline van Eck

Eireen Schreurs on Organicism in Nineteenth Century Architecture

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies

Book

Feminism, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

1993

Gillian Rose

Book

Life work, Ways of thinking

Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter turkish

1993

Nilgün Marmara

Yagmur Kültür on Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter

Disabling Environments

Article

Care, Ways of thinking

Marriage and fertility in epileptic patients

1980

Linda Danksy Eva Andermann

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Lecture, Poetry

Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979

Agnes Martin

Book

Ways of thinking

The Life of the Mind

1977

Hannah Arendt

Tatjana Blaser on The Life of the Mind

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

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

Writing Memory

Book

Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

On success

Poetry

Ways of thinking

The applicant

1963

Sylvia Plath

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

Book

Ways of thinking

The Human Condition

1958

Hannah Arendt

Kenneth Frampton on The Human Condition