“DESCHOOLING ARCHITECTURE: UNDISCIPLINED KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION”

Lecture by Sol Pérez Martínez 

Lines of Enquiry 2026 Lecture Series

ETH Zürich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)

Introduction by Irina Davidovic, gta Archiv

Response by Ethel Baraona Pohl, DPR Barcelona and Chair of Architecture and Care

Thursday 12th March at 18.15

WOMEN WRITING ARCHITECTURE 1700–1900 : EXPANDING HISTORIES

Edited by Anne Hultzsch and Sol Pérez Martínez

Published by gta Verlag

Designed by Gaggeroworks

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.

WOMEN MAKING SPACE IN SOUTH AMERICA 1700-1900

ERC Postdoctoral fellowship - Group Hultzsch

ETH Zürich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)

Project led by Dr Anne Hultzsch

2022-2026

LEARN WHERE YOU STAND

Lessons for civic engagement in architecture and the built environment from the Urban Studies Centres Network and their situated pedagogies in Britain 1968–1988

PhD The Bartlett School of Architecture - Institute of Education

University College London, UK.

Supervisors: Jane Rendell / Kathryn Riley

2015-2021

CLUBS: BUILDING SOCIAL RELATIONS

Traces of Language, Behaviour and Ideology in Modern Architecture

The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK

Supervisor: Adrian Forty

2013-2014