Work

Frankfurt Kitchen

1926
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Taylorised minimum kitchen for CIAM-era mass housing; read by feminist critics (Heynen, Henderson) as a disciplinary apparatus that sealed women into a rationalised cell — central to the gender critique of modernist domesticity.

Dwelling Labour Body

Details

Type
Artefact
Location
Frankfurt, Germany

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Sources

  1. Hilde Heynen; Gülsüm Baydar (eds). Negotiating Domesticity. Routledge, 2005.
  2. Susan Henderson. A Revolution in the Woman's Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

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First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Frankfurt Kitchen." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/work-frankfurt-kitchen/. Accessed July 17, 2026.