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frankfurt kitchen. most likely you have never heard of the viennese architect margarete schütte-lihotzky. she was the foremost female social architect practicing in europe before world war ii. her specialty was designing working-class housing that would reduce the house work of working women, particularly in the kitchen. in fact, her kitchen design became the prototype of the modern built-in kitchen we take for granted today. schütte-lihotzky designed the famed frankfurt kitchen, which was functional, inexpensive, and could be mass-produced. beginning in 1927, the frankfurt city council installed 10,000 of her prefabricated kitchens in working-class apartments. before her innovative design, kitchens were mostly planned for households with servants. |
