debauhaus1-8, Exercise 2: The Frankfurt kitchen

Model answer:

The Frankfurt kitchen was a compact fitted kitchen designed in 1926 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for the housing programme of the city of Frankfurt, led by the city architect Ernst May, and installed in thousands of new flats (check the numbers). It had built-in storage, labelled containers, a fold-down ironing board and a layout planned to save steps, drawing on ideas of household efficiency and studies of work movements (check the sources).

Why it is wrong to call it a Bauhaus design: it was made for a city housing programme, by an architect who was not a Bauhaus teacher or student, in a different city and under a different organisation. It belongs to the New Frankfurt movement within Neues Bauen. It is often called Bauhaus because the school's fame has pulled the whole modern-design movement of the 1920s under its name. A useful habit is to ask which institution made the object (check any specific case).