Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture - Politics - Gender

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The Arc of History Lecture Series: Austria 1900 - 2020 Lecture 5: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky – Architecture, Politics, Gender By Dr Bernadette Reinhold Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) is considered one of the first female architects in Austria and a pioneer of social architecture, a women's rights activist and last but not least, a heroine of the resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. With her most famous and internationally acclaimed design project, "The Frankfurt Kitchen" (1926/27), she entered the modernist canon. The lecture will give insight into the fascinating biography of the Viennese-born Schütte-Lihotzky, who also lived and worked in Frankfurt, the Soviet Union, Japan, China, London, Paris, Turkey and Cuba. Her architectural work is inextricably linked with her social and political commitment, throughout her 103 years of life – an icon of architectural history and pioneering role model. (Image: MSL, Karlsbad 1935, photo: Franz Pfempfert, Collection and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna, MSL F/135)

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The Arc of History Lecture Series: Austria 1900 - 2020

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