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July 28: Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Oil on canvas, 8'6¼" x 10'8" (2.60 x 3.25 m). Musée du Louvre, Paris.&nbsp;Women Writing Architecture: Female Experiences of the Built 1700-1900*, short WoWA, studies female experiences of architecture as recorded in documentary writing drawn from specific regions in South America and Europe between 1700 and 1900. While architectural histories often focus on male-dominated processes of design and production, this project takes a new stance by unearthing women’s contributions to the architectural sphere through writing and editing. While not part of the canon, articles, travelogues, domestic manuals, or pamphlets authored by women in the period consistently featured descriptions of or commentary on buildings and cities, but these have never been examined collectively by architectural historians. Through a combination of macro and micro research, close and distant reading, geographical mapping and tracing of experience, WoWA addresses this gap opening up a new corpus and presenting architecture’s past through the female eye. *This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No.949525). https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/exhibition Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:53:51 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/exhibition Exhibition <img width="14031" height="19866" width_o="14031" height_o="19866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33df787cd7f367c681baa37471461191ee097771cbd83366d88eed82acf8fb4b/20260129_WOWA-Exhibition-Poster_RGB_A1.jpg" data-mid="244619488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33df787cd7f367c681baa37471461191ee097771cbd83366d88eed82acf8fb4b/20260129_WOWA-Exhibition-Poster_RGB_A1.jpg" /> WoWA Exhibition Date: Wednesday, 4 March to Friday, 8 May 2026 Location:&nbsp;gta exhibitions, Foyer, ETH Zurich, HönggerbergOpening: Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 6–8 pm https://ausstellungen.arch.ethz.ch/en Through a forest of postcards next to an oversized bookshelf and historical prints, books, and objects, this exhibition showcases some of WoWA’s results. Based on the premise that writing can be regarded as a spatial practice, we present women’s writing as one of the activities that have historically constituted architecture as both cultural endeavour and built manifestation. Each postcard introduces an 18th or 19th-century woman and her writing with an image, a quote, and a short text explaining the role she played at the time and the potential of her writing for architectural history. We ask: what would be missing without her? And what if we had always included her among the sources we read? An oversized bookshelf turns books inside-out: large cardboard mock-ups of books hold and preserve the scaled-up pages, originally printed and hung on the walls of our workshop rooms in Zurich, Rengo (Chile), and Montreal. Post-its and highlight markings bear witness to our slowing down to read anew and differently. Visitors are invited to pull out pages – as books – and read them in the reading window. Placed in vitrines, printed matter, books and journals as well as historical illustrations and objects demonstrate that women have always been there as active agents of the built environment. They offer a glimpse into the amount of printed output women produced in the period and tell us that they found an audience – the well-used fragment of the English 18th-century cookbook with who-knows-which food stains or the list of subscribers in the German women’s journal speak for themselves. We invite visitors to browse and read, then to take a WoWA postcard home and ponder: What did she have to say? What happens if we listen to her? And: who else have we missed? Curated by Anne Hultzsch in collaboration with Elena Rieger and Sol Pérez Martínez. Graphic design, research, and exhibition installation by Rémi Madrona and Audrey Man. This exhibition is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 949525). The exhibition was made possible thanks to the gta exhibitions team, consisting of Elena Bally, Melinda Bieri, Flora Bühlmann, Mina Hava, Ben Frei, Ella Mathys, Ivana Milenković, Till Kadler, Margaux Koch Goei, Sabine Sarwa, Lucas Lenzin, Julian Volken, Vitus Michel, Eva Tschopp and Philipp Stäheli. https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/book Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:52:10 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/book Book <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59bf4e07f3580f7635a7c4820d003f20841b5daeecef96573da8291bfea28e8d/WoWa-0000.jpg" data-mid="247323610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59bf4e07f3580f7635a7c4820d003f20841b5daeecef96573da8291bfea28e8d/WoWa-0000.jpg" /> <img width="2007" height="2716" width_o="2007" height_o="2716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25b1ec21e6347c51e3f68acc562a8cdfbe5e8a9df55d290d0ee39dbef2ca3921/WoWA_Expanding-Histories_Table-of-content_1.jpg" data-mid="245387020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25b1ec21e6347c51e3f68acc562a8cdfbe5e8a9df55d290d0ee39dbef2ca3921/WoWA_Expanding-Histories_Table-of-content_1.jpg" /> <img width="2007" height="2716" width_o="2007" height_o="2716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2f3161b14a5722b52e8086ef381c97dd9a205c4a5ecdc58ecdb2bedfb917c73/WoWA_Expanding-Histories_Table-of-content_2.jpg" data-mid="245387021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2f3161b14a5722b52e8086ef381c97dd9a205c4a5ecdc58ecdb2bedfb917c73/WoWA_Expanding-Histories_Table-of-content_2.jpg" /> Women Writing Architecture 1700–1900 Expanding Histories2025. 17 × 23 cm,&nbsp;softcover304 pages, 119 illustrationsISBN 978-3-85676-489-0Text 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&nbsp;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&nbsp;Adrian Forty Designed by&nbsp;Gaggero Works (Constanza Gaggero &amp; Sergio Ramirez)&nbsp;This publication has been peer reviewed according to the standards of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/publications Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:46:26 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/publications Publications <img width="2008" height="2717" width_o="2008" height_o="2717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbca44204f136bdd304bed6bc2ab3dde22213068c89b8f58882158bb4d08efb8/WoWa-Cover.jpg" data-mid="247508241" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbca44204f136bdd304bed6bc2ab3dde22213068c89b8f58882158bb4d08efb8/WoWa-Cover.jpg" />Hultzsch, Anne, and Sol Pérez Martínez, eds. Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900: Expanding Histories. Gta verlag, 2025. https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_3d22c8d6-e934-427e-9039-2bb922075d71 <img width="1300" height="1682" width_o="1300" height_o="1682" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/497a8b2a95f5b22a7b5820ed640a4ace4789c0fa48464aafdcc26ea1d1af68e2/Screenshot-2025-09-02-at-15.25.37.png" data-mid="237735592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/497a8b2a95f5b22a7b5820ed640a4ace4789c0fa48464aafdcc26ea1d1af68e2/Screenshot-2025-09-02-at-15.25.37.png" />Hultzsch, Anne. ‘“A Record … for Myself”: Ise Gropius as Professional Writer’. In ‘Cooking up Dinnerspeeches’: Ise Gropius in Japan, edited by Almut Grunewald. Gta Verlag, 2025. https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_58ef58cd-d46c-4dc0-9822-00676456b06c <img width="936" height="896" width_o="936" height_o="896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66fb4c2775998e00edcda306ca35d7c05402752a51b552d708d227e7162b0da0/Untitled.jpg" data-mid="237734841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/936/i/66fb4c2775998e00edcda306ca35d7c05402752a51b552d708d227e7162b0da0/Untitled.jpg" />Hultzsch, Anne. ‘WoWA and its ‹Feminist bricks›: Building Histories’. kritische berichte - Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 52, no. 1 (14 March 2024): 73–81. https://doi.org/10.11588/kb.2024.1.101461. <img width="3334" height="2082" width_o="3334" height_o="2082" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05533862b6fe3a77f5a1147d61a54886c5e4ceb1f7380d38373e4219d6c05ba4/2023-04-03_EAHN_Reading-with_fig4.jpg" data-mid="237734838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05533862b6fe3a77f5a1147d61a54886c5e4ceb1f7380d38373e4219d6c05ba4/2023-04-03_EAHN_Reading-with_fig4.jpg" /> <img width="2296" height="1362" width_o="2296" height_o="1362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bdf5253189f339d9dfe33522de33bc9ba83201ec74598a67e51fff98a521eff/2023-04-03_EAHN_Reading-with_fig2.png" data-mid="237734839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bdf5253189f339d9dfe33522de33bc9ba83201ec74598a67e51fff98a521eff/2023-04-03_EAHN_Reading-with_fig2.png" />Hultzsch, Anne, and Sol Pérez Martínez. ‘Reading-With: A Collaborative Method for Inclusive Architectural Histories’. Architectural Histories 11, no. 1 (12 September 2023). https://doi.org/10.16995/ah.10332. <img width="543" height="866" width_o="543" height_o="866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0370a609f84e308ecd3e91601021445917064499d94f23209de14f076c7dce8/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-17.31.02.png" data-mid="237734836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/543/i/a0370a609f84e308ecd3e91601021445917064499d94f23209de14f076c7dce8/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-17.31.02.png" />Pérez-Martínez, Sol. ‘Mujeres haciendo espacio en Chile 1800 - 1900: Santiago y la poeta popular Rosa Araneda’. _Revista Historia y Patrimonio_ 2, no. 2 (30 June 2023): 1–30., https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6245.2023.70518. <img width="768" height="825" width_o="768" height_o="825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74645d949cde942d92915a44f587caf8cd54c4087be19a9f844e150fddd228a4/fig1-PalaisRoyal-768x825.jpeg" data-mid="237734835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/74645d949cde942d92915a44f587caf8cd54c4087be19a9f844e150fddd228a4/fig1-PalaisRoyal-768x825.jpeg" /> Hultzsch, Anne. ‘The City “En Miniature:” Situating Sophie von La Roche in the Window’. Journal 18, no. Issue 15 Cities (Spring 2023). https://www.journal18.org/. <img width="576" height="825" width_o="576" height_o="825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3bb63014307ffb11bda5e53fdfda6c4ac9628b418f513d8f304909bc48e6d32/cover_issue_409_es_ES.jpeg" data-mid="237734837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/e3bb63014307ffb11bda5e53fdfda6c4ac9628b418f513d8f304909bc48e6d32/cover_issue_409_es_ES.jpeg" />Hultzsch, Anne. ‘Other Practices: Gendering Histories of Architecture / Otras Prácticas: Historias de La Arquitectura Con Perspectiva de Género’. ZARCH, no. 18 (2 September 2022): 30–41. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.202218696. https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Projects Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:52:38 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Projects Our projects She Writes Architecture 1750-1850 PD Dr Anne Hultzsch Project leader&nbsp;She Writes Architecture is located across WoWA’s geographies and focuses on three genres: travel writing, historiography, and advice literature. The project's aim is to read these texts as spatial critiques, revealing the influence their authors wielded over spatial practices, &nbsp;norms, and transgressions. Reading between continents and in the colonial contexts of the period, it complicates their gender with their class, race, and colonial privileges while centering their work within architectural and spatial histories. <img width="1160" height="1961" width_o="1160" height_o="1961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed9664dbaf42f912dcf1e9c81368d8f681402f453d43ecba7c48416a4440e6ea/Houghton_EC7.H3362.746f_-_Female_Spectator.jpg" data-mid="199657287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed9664dbaf42f912dcf1e9c81368d8f681402f453d43ecba7c48416a4440e6ea/Houghton_EC7.H3362.746f_-_Female_Spectator.jpg" />Image source:&nbsp;Haywood, Eliza. The Female Spectator. Frontispiece. 1, 1744. Women Making Space in South America 1700-1900 Dr Sol Pérez-Martínez Postdoc fellow Women Making Space in South America 1700-1900 examines the writings of women in Chile, Perú, Bolivia and Argentina during the 18th and 19th century to explore their spatial practices and their participation in constructing their country’s built environment. This postdoctoral project focuses on making visible women’s accounts of their involvement in three different urban sites: the street, the convent and the school, arguing that women ‘made space’ for themselves in the late colonial and early republican period in South America. <img width="1138" height="804" width_o="1138" height_o="804" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c2e1537704b5f65344e7445d5841392dfdcef65f94e269e3e201d4f16e5af30/GARREAUD-Pedro-Emilio_La-Zamacueca-copy-crop.jpg" data-mid="199657373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c2e1537704b5f65344e7445d5841392dfdcef65f94e269e3e201d4f16e5af30/GARREAUD-Pedro-Emilio_La-Zamacueca-copy-crop.jpg" /> Image source:&nbsp;Garreaud, Pedro Emilio. La Zamacueca. 1875 1863. Photograph. A0007-000007. Cultura Digital UDP. Situating the Frauen-Zimmer: Women’s Writings on, in, and outside of the Architectural Interior, 1787-1804 Elena Rieger&nbsp; Doctoral fellow This dissertation examines the writings of Emilie von Berlepsch (1755-1830) and Lucie Domeier (1770?-1836), analysing how they perceived, critiqued, and theorised the built environment from their lived experience. I focus on their embodied encounters, while also retracing their steps and re-enacting their writings on-site, merging their voices with mine and pulling these spaces from the past into the present. Grounded in feminist theory, this methodology weaves personal anecdotes, ‘affective encounters’, with historical and theoretical analysis, bridging different temporalities and ways of writing architectural histories. Rather than celebrating Berlepsch and Domeier as pioneering or exceptional figures, this dissertation interrogates the complexities&nbsp;and tensions within their perspectives and their writing. <img width="832" height="1495" width_o="832" height_o="1495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2d5282010d70fdd90e30a8be040f98ab0a088bd1a56454734f3c6eb00f853d4/rudiger_frauenzimmer_1705_brighter.jpg" data-mid="199657417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/832/i/c2d5282010d70fdd90e30a8be040f98ab0a088bd1a56454734f3c6eb00f853d4/rudiger_frauenzimmer_1705_brighter.jpg" />Image source: Johann Michael Rüdiger, Frontispiece, Frauen-Zim[m]er-Bibliotheckgen [...],&nbsp;Güstrau&nbsp;1705 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Book-Launch Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:11:05 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Book-Launch Symposium &amp; Book Launch <img width="3508" height="4961" width_o="3508" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87d1dd90a0f3ec19c53ef89f07897f12e18f4d3dcdc1264919d38b74db54bf8f/20260408_RGB_Poster-We-Write.jpg" data-mid="247001423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87d1dd90a0f3ec19c53ef89f07897f12e18f4d3dcdc1264919d38b74db54bf8f/20260408_RGB_Poster-We-Write.jpg" /><img width="1984" height="2806" width_o="1984" height_o="2806" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8d0444514f3ea64a9666cb0808566bb91b588928bf9e0463557e0cddec606cb/Book-launch_Women-Writing-Architecture-17001900.jpeg" data-mid="245388816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8d0444514f3ea64a9666cb0808566bb91b588928bf9e0463557e0cddec606cb/Book-launch_Women-Writing-Architecture-17001900.jpeg" /> WE WRITE: Finissage of Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026, 13.00-20.00 Location: ETH Zürich, Campus Hönggerberg&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; HIL E67 (Rote Hölle) and HIL D 50.5, gta Foyer&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Stephano-Franscini-Platz 5, Zürich&nbsp;Join us for a symposium to close the WoWA Exhibition, celebrate the WoWA Book, and reflect on the outcomes of the project. Programme: 13.00 Exhibition Tour with Anne Hultzsch, Sol Pérez Martínez, and Elena Rieger 14.00 Feminist Translations in Architecture: Stéphanie Dadour, Émilie Oléron Evans, and Lucía Pérez Moreno 15.00 Coffee 15.30 Expanding Agency – Preliminary Research Results: Kathleen James-Chakraborty 16.15 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 – Wrapping Up: Anne Hultzsch 17.00 Lives and Afterlives of Collaborative Research Projects&nbsp;with Maarten Delbeke, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Anne Hultzsch 18.00 Book launch with Anne Hultzsch, Sol Pérez Martínez, and Moritz Gleich. Responses by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Adrian Forty&nbsp; 18.30 Apéro Organisation: gta Ausstellungen, gta Verlag, Gruppe HultzschAbstracts &amp; Speaker BiosKathleen James-Chakraborty Expanding Agency: Preliminary Research Results Funded through a European Research Council Advanced Grant, the project Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture, explores many of the same themes as Anne Hultzsch’s Women Writing Architecture, although it focuses on a later period. &nbsp;This report of its results to date includes a discussion of what can be learned from focusing on twentieth-century periodicals written by and for women. It will also address the project’s inclusion of African American women, the challenges of writing global histories, and a summary of the project's forthcoming edited collection Minding Her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design, as well as a discussion of our dissemination strategies, which include a poster exhibition as well as peer-reviewed scholarship. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art history at University College Dublin. Educated at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, she has also Botaught at the University of Minnesota, the University of California Berkeley, the Ruhr University Bochum, and the Yale School of Architecture, where she was the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History. &nbsp;Her books include Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany (Minnesota, 2018), The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU (Virginia, 2025), co-authored with Katherine M. Kuenzli and Bryan Clark Green, and Minding Her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design, co-edited with Alborz Dianat.Stéphanie Dadour is Associate Professor at ENSA Paris-Malaquais and co-founder of the architecture firm Dadour de Pous Architecture. Her teaching, research, and projects focus on the links between domestic space and spatial strategies of minority groups. Among her publications are Des voix s’élèvent. Féminismes et Architecture; The Housing Project. Discourses, Ideals, Models and Politics in 20th-Century Exhibitions (with G. Caramellino); and 1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle : Liban. She is currently completing a body of work centered on the notion of Encounter in architecture. Dr Émilie Oléron Evans is an art historian and translator based at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the respective and combined roles of gender dynamics and of translation in the conceptualisation and institutional evolution of history of art, architecture and design as disciplines. She wrote on the reception and legacy of, among others, Nikolaus Pevsner, Linda Nochlin and Carol Duncan. She is co-investigator on the project ‘Women and History of Art in the Making, Britain, 1945-1974’, which proposes new approaches for documenting and interpreting the archival traces of women’s professional agency in the spaces shaping visual literacy.Dr. Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno is a Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has served as a Visiting Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) from 2022 to 2024 and at the University of Colorado Denver (USA) in 2016. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2013), an MS.AAD from Columbia University (New York, 2008), and completed postgraduate studies at Aalto University (Helsinki, 2004).&nbsp;A licensed architect and urban planner (University of Navarra, 2003), she also holds a BA in Philosophy from KU Leuven (2024). Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture and feminist theory. She has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for several research grants dedicated to studying the work of women architects in Spain and has published widely on the subject, including: Women in a Spain in Transition, 1962–1999 (ed., 2025) and Architecture &amp; Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings by Hilde Heynen (ed., 2025). She is currently&nbsp;working on the translation of these two volumes: the former from Spanish into English, and the latter from English into Spanish. https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Book-Launch-Mexico-and-Aarhus Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:42:32 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Book-Launch-Mexico-and-Aarhus Book Launches <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/333541bf343ec8f660c728e9e3c6055b01d5469987e47e2324a62d2b7cae1e4e/WoWa-0000.jpg" data-mid="247323240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/333541bf343ec8f660c728e9e3c6055b01d5469987e47e2324a62d2b7cae1e4e/WoWa-0000.jpg" /> Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Mexico City Date: Friday, 17 May 2026, 13.30-14.30 Location: Hilton Mexico City Reforma, Don Alberto 1 Join in the conversation with editors Anne Hultzsch and Sol Pérez Martínez and authors Ana Ozaki, Barbara Penner, Damla Göre and Pía Montealege. Responses by Ana Esteban Maluenda and Itohan Osayimwese.&nbsp; European Architectural History Network Biannual International Conference, Aarhus Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2026Location: Aarhus University Conference Centre Join in the conversation with editors, authors, and respondents.&nbsp; https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Call-for-Papers-EAHN-26-Session Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:53:20 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Call-for-Papers-EAHN-26-Session EAHN 2026 Session <img width="767" height="766" width_o="767" height_o="766" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83087dfaf4ba8287a2d672f451af3def6881c26f09304ae3d14b7b44504c35e4/162021001_Cropped.jpg" data-mid="237734709" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/767/i/83087dfaf4ba8287a2d672f451af3def6881c26f09304ae3d14b7b44504c35e4/162021001_Cropped.jpg" /> <img width="642" height="642" width_o="642" height_o="642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a2b45204d4311d9caac8889f308c286557bf9809cec4642e8d4ec4b0e2d2599/image002-1_cropped.png" data-mid="237734710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/642/i/1a2b45204d4311d9caac8889f308c286557bf9809cec4642e8d4ec4b0e2d2599/image002-1_cropped.png" /> Architectural Objects of Colonial Consumption: The Material and Visual Worlds of Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Other Hot Beverages CHAIRS AND CONTACT DETAILS: Laura Hindelang, University of Bern laura.hindelang@unibe.ch Anne Hultzsch, ETH Zurich hultzsch@arch.ethz.ch This session brings together three phenomena: ceramics featuring architectural motifs; the consumption of hot beverages, made from substances, including tea, coffee, and chocolate, which played a significant role in colonial trade and imperial networks; and their spatial environments. We invite papers that centre on a specific object or space and its agency as a prism through which to interrogate broader spatial histories in any geography; we focus on the period from ca. 1500 to 1900 but are also interested in examples outside this time span if they reflect on the above questions.https://konferencer.au.dk/eahn26/call-for-papers-1/sessionsSession in Aarhus: 17-21 June 2026 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Past-events Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:13:34 +0000 Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch/Past-events Past events <img width="3507" height="4960" width_o="3507" height_o="4960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3155e83275e813fb5517fb5884f08a4b049efdc79044deac6c53e077abdb872c/poster_EN.jpg" data-mid="223264830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3155e83275e813fb5517fb5884f08a4b049efdc79044deac6c53e077abdb872c/poster_EN.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="4962" width_o="3508" height_o="4962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df87fd15545ad629a8c85393f49ba5ab79adfb8bbd871224d6fb5cae161d7106/poster_DE.jpg" data-mid="223264829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df87fd15545ad629a8c85393f49ba5ab79adfb8bbd871224d6fb5cae161d7106/poster_DE.jpg" /> Seeing Her. Where Women Wrote Architecture 1700-1900 Date: Friday, 29 November 2024 Location: ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E 71.1 Time: 15.00-18.00 CEST The 5th WoWA Workshop &amp; Colloquium is entitled SEEING HER / SIE SEHEN and will take place on 29 November 2024 at ETH Zurich. Featuring a private bilingual reading workshop followed by public talks in the afternoon, it brings together a diverse group of scholars in terms of seniority, period, background, and expertise.Talks by Sonja Dümpelmann (Munich), Isabel Karremann (Zurich) and Elena Rieger will centre around specific sites ranging from maternity spaces to the literary country house and gendered landscapes. Together with the respondents, Anna-Maria Meister (Florence/Karlsruhe) and Anne Hultzsch (Zurich), speakers will complicate architectural histories of the 18th and 19th centuries with the question where women wrote architecture.&nbsp; Join us for the in-person colloquium: all welcome! Sie Sehen. Wo Frauen Architektur Schrieben 1700-1900 Datum: Freitag, 29. November 2024 Ort: ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E 71.1 Zeit: 15.00-18.00 Uhr MESZ Unser 5. WoWA Workshop &amp; Kolloquium trägt den Titel SEEING HER / SIE SEHEN und findet am 29. November 2024 an der ETH Zürich statt. Die Veranstaltung beginnt mit einem privaten zweisprachigen Leseworkshop, gefolgt von öffentlichen Vorträgen am Nachmittag, und bringt eine vielfältige Gruppe von Wissenschaftler*innen unterschiedlicher Karrierestufen,Hintergründe, Fachgebiete und Epochen zusammen. Sonja Dümpelmann (München), Isabel Karremann (Zürich) und Elena Rieger werden in ihren Vorträgen gezielt Orte untersuchen, die auf unterschiedliche Weise durch Schreiben ‘gegendered’ wurden: von Räumen des Gebärens und der Mutterschaft, dem literarischen Landhaus bis zu geschlechtsspezifischen Landschaften. Mit Reflektionen von Anna-Maria Meister (Florenz/Karlsruhe) und Anne Hultzsch (Zürich) werden wir die Architekturgeschichten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts durch die Frage, wo Frauen Architektur schrieben, erweitern und verkomplizieren.&nbsp; Nehmen Sie am Kolloquium vor Ort teil: Alle sind herzlich willkommen!&nbsp;