Kuehl, Anna.

First the kitchen, then the Façade : designing neues Bauen for the neue Frau / by Anna Kuehl.

[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : UMI Dissertation Services, ©2011.

vii, 88 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 22 cm

This thesis examines the revolutionary neues Bauen (New Architecture) that Frankfurter Stadtbaurat (Frankfurt Municipal Planner) Ernst May designed in Weimar-era Frankfurt. I focus in particular on May's consideration of the work of women, especially the neue Frau (New Woman), into his design, as well as Grete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen), which was often built into these modern homes. In my analysis of images of these spaces, I look primarily at those published in May's monthly periodical, Das neue Frankfurt; I closely study visual linkages of neues Bauen and the neue Frau, which, I argue, emerge in fashion photography. I address all of these issues through a lens of reform and ultimately consider whether May's neues Bauen designs directed interwar women to function as vessels of tradition or as emblems of modernity.

May, Ernst, 1886-1970.
Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete, 1897-2000.
Kitchens Germany Frankfurt Design.
Architecture and women Germany Frankfurt History 20th century.
Architecture and women.
Kitchens Design.

Theses.
History.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 278589
Cote: BIB 214174
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