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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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"Attempting to stand outside of time, the house neither aged nor weathered: it merely cracked and deteriorated"

Welcome to the first episode of the new series "Talking Modernism".  In this episode we'll be exploring what exactly modernism is through one of its iconic buildings, the Villa Savoye.

Useful links, in case you want to investigate further:

• Photo study of Villa Savoye
• Wikpedia on Le Corbusier
• Wikipedia on "Towards a New Architecture"
• Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History

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Photo credit Rory Hyde - https://www.flickr.com/photos/roryrory/2520028487, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92939219