Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Frankfurt Kitchen

1926, Schütte-Lihotzky created

Convenience in the Kitchen Redefines Social Housing
"You'll be surprised that, before I con-
ceived the Frankfurt Kitchen in 1926, I
never cooked myself. At home in Vienna
my mother cooked, in Frankfurt I went
to the Wirthaus [restaurant/pub]. I
designed the kitchen as an architect, not
as a housewife.”
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 1997
Her innovative work was recognized,
in 1922 she was awarded the Bronze
Medal of the City of Vienna
The Frankfurt Kitchen. A Signifi-
In 1980 she was
awarded the Architec-
ture Prize of the city of
cant milestone in modern architec-
ture with its revolutionary design
Vienna
that is now considered the origin for In 1985 she pub-
modern kitchen and efficent design. Grete and rest of May’s lished Erinnerungen
hired architects completed aus dem Widerstand
In early 1926, Schütte-Lihotzky reconstructing Magnit- (Memories of the
accepted a job offer from Ernst orsk, Russia Resistance), a
May, joined his team of architects in memoir of her politi-
to renovate social housing in Frank- cal activities Published her
furt am Main, Germany. All in effort memoir “Memories
to deem their title “Das Neue Frank- of the Resistance”
furt” (the new Frankfurt)
Inspiration fromThe
Kitchen of a Miltropia
Dining Car, In 1990 she advised the Museum
für angewandte Kunst in Vienna on
the creation of two replicas of the
In October 1930 she and her husband Frankfurt Kitchen, one of which
" Wilhelm Schütte, joined May’s “Bri- Present replicas of the went on permanent display.
in 1924, Schütte-Lihotzky partici- gade” and embarked for the Soviet Frankfurt Kitchen, on
pated in large-scale program of public Union to work on new industrial cities
housing in Vienna, Austria. Helping as part of Stalin's First Five Year
permanent display
to design the Winarsky-Hof
1924, Participated in Plan (1928–32)
constructing Winarsky-Hof.
Her design consisted of 840
apartments.

1938 moved to Istanbul in

In 1927, Frankfurt Spring Fair August to teach in the
In 1923 she received the Silver gave Schütte-Lihotzky's her Academy of Fine Arts 1952 Schütte-Lihotzky Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky died
1921 she began working for the well deserved validation for her designed Kindergarten
municipal housing department of Medal of the city of Vienna alongside Bruno Taut. on 18 January 2000, age 103
innovative kitchen design. am Kapaunplatz in
the Commune of Vienna along- Vienna, Austria.
side noted architect Adolf Loos In 1923 , Schütte-Lihotzky was
awarded her architecture diploma
from the Academy of Applied
1915 to 1919 Arts
(World War I),
Schütte-Lihotzky Vienna’s defeat in war, followed
took up the study of inflation and social chaos, resulting
architecture at in a very densely, industrial, and From 1928 to 1930
Vienna's Akademie commercial city of helpless com- engaged in designing
für angewandte moners; as many as 90,000 were schools, kindergartens,
Kunst (Academy of homeless. 1923 these misfortunes and student accommo-
Applied Arts) led to Schütte-Lihotzky becoming dation as part of the
a member of the Austrian Social city’s wider civic devel-
Democratic Workers' Party opment program
(SDAP). The Frankfurt Kitchen, Schütte-Lihotzky
Cooking-Niche and designed Kindergarten
the origin for the history Blueprint of the Frankfurt Am Kapaunplatz in
Scullery, Core-House of kitchen design. Vienna, Austria
Type 7, Kitchen with sketches filled
with Schütte’s remarks Emilie Cevallos Paredes