I'll never forget.
In my first architecture class:
Constructing Home
I learned about a very rad Austrian lady:
Margarete Schüette-Lihotzky
In 1926 she designed the:
Frankfurt Kitchen
The Frankfurt Kitchen was a social experiment based on time/efficiency studies. Each element was positioned in way to minimize unnecessary movement. Lihotzky was largely influenced by that classic American text: The New Housekeeping (1913) by Christine Frederick. Frederick analysed the bodily movements and circulation patterns of the housewife as she engaged in daily work in order to arrive at new principles for household design and labour---It forever changed the way we look at women, domesticity....and the Kitchen.
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