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The “Frankfurt Kitchen”
The "Frankfurt Kitchen" is an important document of cultural history for the transfer of industrial, rationalized work processes to the sphere of the private household. This is a central characteristic of modern architecture and everyday culture in the 1920s. The Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the kitchen in 1926 as…
The housing estate building programme, supported mainly by the SPD, was politically motivated and aimed at providing the technical and hygienic standards of the day — running water, gas and electricity — to the lower classes. The concept of standardization was connected not only with production techniques, but also reflected the ideological position of the Bauhaus and Werkbund activists, who saw the uniform design of everyday objects as a contribution towards leveling the differences between classes. The cultural historian Dr. Joachim Krausse, together with the architectural theorist Jonas Geist, made a documentary film in the 1980s as an archaeological study of the discrepancies between the idea and the reality of the New Frankfurt.
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