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"If I had known they'd talk about nothing else I never would have designed that damn kitchen"
In this episode we discuss the Frankfurt kitchen the first mass-produced fitted kitchen. Designed in 1926 by the amazing and brilliant Greta Schutte-Lihotzky, we'll also discuss functionalist design, the birth of public housing and the idea of "wicked problems"
To explore further:
- Description of the Frankfurt kitchen here
- Video of "Kitchen Dance" here
- Video of Robert Rotifer's song "The Frankfurt Kitchen" here
- Instructional film from 1926 showing the Frankfurt kitchen in use here
- “The Secret History of Home Economics” by Danielle Dreilinger, here
- Article on Red Vienna's housing program here
- Article on Greta Schutte-Lihodzky here
- Article on Ernst May and the New Frankfurt program here
- Wikipedia article on Futura typeface here
- Wikipedia article on Bauhaus here
- Article on gesamtkunstverk here
- Article on Casa Batlo here
- Rittle & Webber's 1973 paper "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning" here
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