Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as Austrian architect (1897–2000).
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was born at Vienna in 1897. Her recorded nationality is Austria. She was educated at University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
She worked as architect and designer.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
Her work was formally recognised with the Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, City of Vienna Prize for Architecture and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.
That the work was done from Austria matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky died in 2000, aged 103. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Worked as architect and designer
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