!!!Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete

b. Vienna, Jan. 23, 1897, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 18, 2000. Architect. 1915-1919 studied 
architecture at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (first woman in 
Austria); from 1920 work for the Vienna  Suburban Movement (among 
others with A.  Loos); 1926 at the department of structural 
engineering in Frankfurt am Main. Between 1926-1928 she developed the 
"Frankfurt kitchen", which had a lasting world-wide influence. 
Married the architect W. Schuette in 1927, worked in the Soviet Union 
with a Frankfurt group from 1930 (housing schemes for workers, schools 
and kindergartens). At the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 1938; 
arrested as a communist and member of the Resistance in Vienna in 1940 
and sentenced to death, but escaped. Went to Sofia in 1946 (several 
children´s homes), returned to Vienna in 1947, very few 
commissions for political reasons; concentrated on writing and 
political work for women and peace. Awarded the Austrian Decoration 
for Science and Art in 1993 and numerous other prizes and awards.

!Further works
Winarsky-Hof and Otto-Haas-Hof housing schemes, Vienna 
20th district, 1924/25 (with others);; various terraced houses, 
central laundry and school in Frankfurt-Praunheim, 1926-1929; 2 houses 
for the Werkbundsiedlung housing scheme, Vienna 13th district, 
1930-1932; Globus printery and publishing building, Vienna 20th 
district, 1953-1956 (with W. Schuette and others); Rinnboeckstrasse 
kindergarten, Vienna 11th district, 1961-1963. - __Publication:__ 
Erinnerungen aus dem Widerstand, 1985.

!Literature
K. Schwanzer and G. Feuerstein, Wr. Bauten 1900 bis heute, 
1964; F. Achleitner, Oe. Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert, 
vol. 2, 1983 and vol. 3/1, 1990; Magistrat der Stadt Wien 
(ed.), Architektur in Wien, 1984; M. S.-L. Soziale Architektur, 
ed. by P. Noever, %%sup 2/%1996.



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