Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender. : : New Perspectives on Her Life and Work / / ed. by Marcel Bois, Bernadette Reinhold.

A pioneer of architectural history Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) entered the modernist canon with her “Frankfurt Kitchen.” She is also considered a pioneer of social architecture, a women’s rights activist, and, last but not least, a heroine of the resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. In th...

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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • More than Just “That Damned Kitchen.” New Perspectives on the Life and Work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
  • Biographical and Gender- Historical Perspectives
  • One Hundred Years Lively and Alert. On the Vitality of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
  • “Planning and Building—These Things Matter to You Women.” Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Lifelong Democratic Commitment on Behalf of Women
  • Profession: “Frau Architekt.” On the Training of Vienna’s First Female Architects
  • Life Number Three. Reflections on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Autobiographical Work
  • Stations in the Life of a Transnational Female Architect
  • On Settler Huts and Core-Houses. Margarete Lihotzky’s Contribution to Cooperative Labor in the Vienna Settlement Movement
  • Designed by a Woman with Women. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and New Frankfurt
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Soviet Years (1930–37)
  • Intermezzo in Istanbul. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Projects in Turkish Exile
  • Forgotten Discourses on Architecture in Vienna after 1945
  • Rereading Schütte-Lihotzky’s 1956 China Diary: From the Walls of Beijing siheyuan to Vienna’s Rinnböckstrasse
  • Consistently Modern? Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as an Adviser to the Deutsche Bauakademie in the German Democratic Republic
  • Encounters
  • Friendship and Estrangement. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Otto Neurath
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Herbert Eichholzer. A Relational Fabric and Its Implications
  • Wilhelm Schütte—In the Shadow of Lihotzky?
  • The Political Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
  • “Followed a False Ideology till Her Dying Day.” Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as a Communist Intellectual
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Fight against the Nazi Regime
  • From Anti-Fascist Consensus to Anti-Communist Hegemony. The Marginalization of the Communist Party of Austria at the Onset of the Cold War
  • On the Order of Cooking Spoons. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Women’s Politics within the Communist Party of Austria after 1945—A Case Study
  • Kindergartens and Kitchens: Reflection and Reception
  • Margarete Schütte- Lihotzky’s “House for Children.” Pedagogical Reflections
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Buildings for Children
  • The Frankfurt Kitchen as a Museum Object
  • “Facadism.” The Reception of the Frankfurt Kitchen and the Art Market
  • Appendix
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky— Biography
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Abbreviations
  • Image Credits
  • Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Imprint