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Women's History Month
Papers/Articles
Nonfiction
Fiction
March 2008


Catherine Chau, President


Marisa Zambuto, Vice President






Listed in decending chronological order.

"Women in Architecture." ArchVoices. 4 Mar. 2005. <http://www.archvoices.org/pg.cfm?nid=home&IssueID=1564>.

A reprint of Progressive Architecture magazine's "Women in Architecture: Leveling the Playing Field" by Abby Bussel in 1995.

Singerman, Deborah. "Women in Architecture." Architecture Bulletin. Nov/Dec 2004. <http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=5860>.






Listed in author name's alphabetical order.

Adams, Annmarie and Peta Tancred. Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Agrest, Diana, Patricia Conway, and Leslie Kanes Weisman, ed. Sex of Architecture. New York: Harry N Abrams, 1996.

Almanac of Architecture and Design 2004. Washington, D.C.: Greenway Communications, 2004.

Anthony, Kathryn H. Design Juries on Trial : The Renaissance of the Design Studio. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

Anthony, Kathryn H. Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Coleman, Debra, Elizabeth Danze, and Carol Henderson, ed. Architecture and Feminism : Yale Publications on Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

A Creative Constellation : Chicago Women in Architecture : Celebrating Twenty Five Years. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1999.

Durning, Louise and Richard Wrigley, ed. Gender and Architecture. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Friedman, Alice T. Women and the Making of the Modern House : A Social and Architectural History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Hasegawa, Itsuko, Teruaki Furodoi, Moriko Kira, Katsuhiro Miyamoto. Itsuko Hasegawa: Island Hopping - Crossover Architecture. Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2001.

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution : a History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981.

Hayden, Dolores. Redesigning the American Dream: the Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Hughes, Francesca, ed. The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.

Searing, Helen. Equal Partners : Men and Women Principals in Contemporary Architectural Practice. Northampton: Smith College Museum of Art, 1998.

Toy, Maggie, ed. The Architect : Women in Contemporary Architecture. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001.

Walker, Lynne. Drawing on Diversity : Women, Architecture and Practice. London: Heinz RIBA Gallery, 1997.

Weisman, Leslie. Discrimination By Design : A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.






Fiction by architects or about architects or that involves architects.
Listed in decrementing year, then author name's alphabetical order.

Coming soon...

















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Last Updated: 5/22/08