Christine Zwingl is an architect and was part of the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky research group that cataloged the architect’s archive in the 1980s and ’90s. She has managed the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Room in Vienna since 2014. Her most recent book is Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: Spuren in Wien (Promedia Verlag, 2021).

06.22.2023

• Marcel Bois
• Thomas Flierl
• Bernadette Reinhold
• Christine Zwingl

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Built Red Vienna, Then Fought Nazis

Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky is best known as the designer of the Frankfurt Kitchen, forerunner of modern fitted kitchens. Her work was informed by her communist politics — a cause in whose name she joined the resistance against Nazism.