Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.New Perspectives on Her Life and Work Alvar Aalto By Peter Wyeth

By Peter Wyeth

24 best-practice examples are highlighted

so much so that his magisterial county-by-county series of 46 books on The Buildings of England (first published 1951 - 74) is usually referred to simply as 'Pevsner'

Seifert achieved much in his lifetime yet has remained a controversial and divisive figure due to his unwavering commitment to modernism

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.New Perspectives on Her Life and Work Alvar Aalto By Peter WyethPaperback, 368 pages By Marcel Bois and Bernadette Reinhold Margarete Schtte Lihotzky (18972000) entered the modernist canon with her Frankfurt Kitchen. She is also considered a pioneer of social architecture, a womens rights activist, and, last but not least, a heroine of the resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. In this book, available in English for the first time, recent research in the fields of art history, contemporary history, pedagogy, and