Book

Women Writing Architecture 1700–1900
Expanding Histories

2025. 17 × 23 cm, softcover
304 pages, 119 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-489-0
Text in English

https://doi.org/10.54872/gta/4913

From India to Chile and Britain to Senegal, women have influenced architecture for centuries by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this publication expands histories of architecture to include these women. The contributing authors reveal female spatial agencies using rare written sources, novel methodologies, and in-depth re-readings of canonical histories. Housewives, princesses, novelists, travellers, nurses – writing as clients, users, or critics – are all relevant voices for understanding the past of the built environment. Examining specific spaces such as churches, homes, gardens, boulevards, kitchens, or shacks, this book proposes a novel take on feminist historiographies.

Edited byAnne Hultzsch, Sol Pérez Martínez
Contributions by Nitin Bathla, Karen Burns, Alba Carballeira, Christina Contandriopoulos, Francesca Denegri, Harriet Edquist, Yannick Etoundi, Hilary Fraser, Damla Göre, Jennifer Hayward, Laura Hindelang, Anne Hultzsch, Sigrid de Jong, Pía Montealegre, Ana G. Ozaki, Christian Parreno, Barbara Penner, Sol Pérez Martínez, Michelle Prain, Niloofar Rasooli, Jane Rendell, Elena Rieger, Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Tania Sengupta, Helen Thomas, Mabel O. Wilson, Richard Wittman, Lingyu Wu
Afterword by Adrian Forty
Designed by Gaggero Works (Constanza Gaggero & Sergio Ramirez) 

This publication has been peer reviewed according to the standards of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).