Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.New Perspectives on Her Life and Work Alvar Aalto community centres and much more

community centres and much more

It argues that these environments were as constitutive of the Corporation’s identity as the programmes and people that they housed

24 best-practice examples are highlighted

the early modern movement country house now open to the public by the National Trust

while adding much that is new

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.New Perspectives on Her Life and Work Alvar Aalto community centres and much morePaperback, 368 pages By Marcel Bois and Bernadette Reinhold Margarete Schtte Lihotzky (18972000) entered the modernist canon with her Frankfurt Kitchen. She is also considered a pioneer of social architecture, a womens rights activist, and, last but not least, a heroine of the resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. In this book, available in English for the first time, recent research in the fields of art history, contemporary history, pedagogy, and