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"If I had known they'd talk about nothing else I never would have designed that damn kitchen"

In this episode we discuss the Frankfurt kitchen the first mass-produced fitted kitchen.   Designed in 1926 by the amazing and brilliant Greta Schutte-Lihotzky, we'll also discuss functionalist design, the birth of public housing and the idea of "wicked problems"

To explore further:

• Description of the Frankfurt kitchen here
• Video of "Kitchen Dance" here
• Video of Robert Rotifer's song "The Frankfurt Kitchen" here
• Instructional film from 1926 showing the Frankfurt kitchen in use here
• “The Secret History of Home Economics” by Danielle Dreilinger, here
• Article on Red Vienna's housing program here
• Article on Greta Schutte-Lihodzky here
• Article on Ernst May and the New Frankfurt program here
• Wikipedia article on Futura typeface here
• Wikipedia article on Bauhaus here
• Article on gesamtkunstverk here
• Article on Casa Batlo here
• Rittle & Webber's 1973 paper "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning" here

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