Schütte-Lihotzky studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule from 1915, among the first women in Austria to read architecture and probably the first to practise it fully. She later recalled that in 1916 nobody believed a woman would ever be commissioned to build a house — herself included. She worked with Adolf Loos on the Friedensstadt settlement in 1921, then joined Ernst May's municipal building department in Frankfurt in 1926, where she designed the Frankfurt Kitchen: a galley laid out from time-and-motion study, of which some twelve thousand were installed in the city's new estates. Moscow and Istanbul followed. She was the only woman among the architects of the Vienna Werkbundsiedlung in 1932. After 1945 she built schools and kindergartens in Vienna, and lived to be a hundred and two.
