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Juggling With Eggs

It’s all the more odd considering #RIBA has been vocal in recent years in its commitment to addressing #ClimateChange and promoting low-carbon, sustainable design.

The RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge explicitly acknowledges the urgent need for reducing carbon emissions and improving air quality through sustainable building practices.

Furthermore, RIBA’s Climate Change Action Plan calls on #architects to prioritise clean energy sources that do not contribute to harmful #AirPollution.

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Levka

#architects #history #kitchens #herstory

"Schütte-Lihotzky led a remarkably long and full life, dying a few days short of her 103rd birthday in 2000. But her name remains forever connected to a space she designed when only 29 years old: the Frankfurt Kitchen, the prototype of the modern fitted kitchen.

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The kitchen design was part of a wider effort to standardize housing and lighten the load of the working class. 'She didn’t just develop a kitchen,' says Austrian architect Renate Allmayer-Beck. 'It was a concept to make women’s lives easier by giving them a kitchen where they could manage more easily and have more time for themselves.'

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The Frankfurt Kitchen was efficiently laid out and compact, to save both on costs and the physical effort required to use it. Here, a woman could move from sink to stove without taking a single step. This quest for efficiency also led Schütte-Lihotzky to move the kitchen from a corner of the family room into its own space—a choice that baffled contemporary homemakers.

Designing the first built-in, prefabricated, and mass-produced kitchen at a time when none of this was standard practice was a mammoth logistical and technological undertaking.

While the Frankfurt Kitchen was marketed as a kitchen designed for women by a woman, Schütte-Lihotzky resented the implication that her gender automatically endowed her with secret domestic knowledge, writing in her memoir that 'it fed into the notions among the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie at the time that women essentially work in the home at the kitchen stove.' In fact, Schütte-Lihotzky had never run a household or even cooked before developing the kitchen, approaching it instead like any other architectural challenge. She consulted literature on rationalizing domestic labor, conducted time-motion studies systematically observing and measuring the time and physical movements involved in common tasks, and studied galley kitchens on trains."

atlasobscura.com/articles/marg

Atlas Obscura · Meet the Feminist Resistance Fighter Who Created the Modern KitchenBy Kaja Seruga
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Tom Roberts

Playing 'The Sky, The Earth, And All Between' by Architects.

I have something of soft spot for the metalcore + quasi-pop + quasi-electronic genre that bands like Architects and Bring Me The Horizon dwell in.

Sometimes it's the right sort of music for the mood I'm in.

I'm liking this album so far.

Album cover. Has an outstretched hand with fingers spread. A bright blurry light is on the palm. In the background is a blurry image, perhaps projected on a screen.
#Architects#Metalcore#Metal
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Eric Maugendre

"If you want to be a convincing advisor, psychological research tells us that your observations/facts and rational arguments may have relatively little effect. You need to make sure your relation with the person you need to convince is as good as possible and the message is heard as often as possible."
—Gerben Wierda @gctwnl: ea.rna.nl/2022/10/24/on-the-ps 🧵

R&A IT Strategy & Architecture · On the Psychology of Architecture and the Architecture of Psychology[Sticky] About the role ‘convictions’ play in human intelligence, starting from the practical situations ‘advisors’ — such as IT advisors — find themselves in. Advisors need…
#facilitation#complexity#systems
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