22 Apr 2024

Urban Issue with Bill McKay: The history of kitchen design

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 22 April 2024
Image of Margarete Schutte Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen from the 1920s.

Photo: Bill McKay

Bill McKay discusses the history of the classic layout of a kitchen, and its connections to pre-Nazi Germany. And the famous 'kitchen triangle' which many people still insist is fundamental to a good kitchen layout.

Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.

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