Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Herbert Eichholzer. A Relational Fabric and Its Implications

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Foreword 7
4. More than Just “That Damned Kitchen.” New Perspectives on the Life and Work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 12
5. Biographical and Gender- Historical Perspectives
6. One Hundred Years Lively and Alert. On the Vitality of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 22
7. “Planning and Building—These Things Matter to You Women.” Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Lifelong Democratic Commitment on Behalf of Women 32
8. Profession: “Frau Architekt.” On the Training of Vienna’s First Female Architects 44
9. Life Number Three. Reflections on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Autobiographical Work 59
10. Stations in the Life of a Transnational Female Architect
11. On Settler Huts and Core-Houses. Margarete Lihotzky’s Contribution to Cooperative Labor in the Vienna Settlement Movement 78
12. Designed by a Woman with Women. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and New Frankfurt 94
13. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Soviet Years (1930–37) 107
14. Intermezzo in Istanbul. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Projects in Turkish Exile 132
15. Forgotten Discourses on Architecture in Vienna after 1945 146
16. Rereading Schütte-Lihotzky’s 1956 China Diary: From the Walls of Beijing siheyuan to Vienna’s Rinnböckstrasse 157
17. Consistently Modern? Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as an Adviser to the Deutsche Bauakademie in the German Democratic Republic 172
18. Encounters
19. Friendship and Estrangement. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Otto Neurath 186
20. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Herbert Eichholzer. A Relational Fabric and Its Implications 196
21. Wilhelm Schütte—In the Shadow of Lihotzky? 207
22. The Political Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
23. “Followed a False Ideology till Her Dying Day.” Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as a Communist Intellectual 226
24. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Fight against the Nazi Regime 246
25. From Anti-Fascist Consensus to Anti-Communist Hegemony. The Marginalization of the Communist Party of Austria at the Onset of the Cold War 258
26. On the Order of Cooking Spoons. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Women’s Politics within the Communist Party of Austria after 1945—A Case Study 272
27. Kindergartens and Kitchens: Reflection and Reception
28. Margarete Schütte- Lihotzky’s “House for Children.” Pedagogical Reflections 290
29. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Buildings for Children 301
30. The Frankfurt Kitchen as a Museum Object 315
31. “Facadism.” The Reception of the Frankfurt Kitchen and the Art Market 327
32. Appendix
33. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky— Biography 342
34. Selected Bibliography 347
35. Index 350
36. Abbreviations 354
37. Image Credits 355
38. Authors 357
39. Acknowledgments 363
40. Imprint 364