Thomas Flierl is an architectural historian and author. His most recent publication is a collection of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s letters, “Mach den Weg um Prinkipo, meine Gedanken werden Dich dabei begleiten!” Der Gefängnis-Briefwechsel 1941–1945 (Lukas 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.