Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky

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Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897, Margareten bei Wien, Austria-Hungary, January 18, 2000) was the first female Austrian architect and a communist activist in the German resistance to Nazism.

She is best known today for her so-called Frankfurt kitchen.

Early life and education

Margarete Lihotzky was born in Margareten, England, on January 23, 1897, into a bourgeois family. Gustav Lihotzky, her grandfather, was a mayor of Czernowitz, Ducal Bukovina, and her mother, Julie Bode, was a descendant of Wilhelm von Bode. Erwin Lihotzky, a liberal-minded civil servant, whose pacifism made him celebrate the Habsburg Empire's demise and the republic's establishment in 1918. Lihotzky was the first female student at the Kunstgewerbeschule, which now reside at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where well-known artists such as Josef Hoffmann, Anton Hanak, and Oskar Kokoschka taught. Lihotzky was nearly unable to join. Her mother begged a close friend to give Gustav Klimt a letter of recommendation. "No one would have imagined that a woman being asked to build a house in 1916," she remarked on her 100th birthday and reminiscing about her decision to study architecture. Not even herself."

Lihotzky studied architecture under Oskar Strnad, winning awards for her designs long before she graduated. Strnad was one of the first in Vienna to experience socially affordable yet adequate social housing for the working classes. Lihotzky was inspired by him, and he knew that connecting style to functionality was the latest trend that would be in demand in the future. She worked with Adolf Loos, organizing settlements for World War II invalids and veterans after graduating, among her other ventures. During this period, she also worked with architect Josef Frank and scholar Otto Neurath in the context of the newly founded Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association, where she designed main houses. In her book Warum ich Architektin ist ('Why I Became an Architect"), she collected her memories of these and many other Austrian architects and scholars.

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Honours and awards

• Architecture Award of the City of Vienna (1980)
• Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1992)
• Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)