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The Austrian architect Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky was known for her Frankfurter Kuche, a small and highly rational standard kitchen used in the Niddatal Siedlungen based on the design of kitchens in train dining-cars, when May took her to Moscow in 1930.

By then, she had her bellyful of kitchens, so she was given a new task: she was to design Kindergarten and schools for the Standardgor Project. These buildings were essential to the USSR, because the Soviet women had to work to meet the goals of the newly imposed Five Years Plan. Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky and her husband Wilhelm Schutte (another architect working for May) left the Soviet Union in 1937, when their passports expired.

Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky in an interview with Rongwrong about her visit to Magnitogorsk in 1932: "Kyrgyz girls who had lived only a short time before as nomads were trained in bricklaying during six weeks. They built my kindergartens. Sometimes it was as much as 15 cm off the design. That speaks for itself."
schutte-lihotsky in 1928

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