Michelle Jackson-Beckett is senior lecturer in design history and theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the archivist of the Victor Papanek Foundation. She is a doctoral candidate in design history at Bard Graduate Center in New York.

12.11.2020

• Michelle Jackson-Beckett
• Ben Beckett

Socialist Architect Josef Frank’s Modernism Was All About Freedom

The Austrian socialist architect Josef Frank resisted modernists who wanted to make homes look like workplaces — an idea with new resonance in an age when so many of us are working from home and feel like we can't escape from our work.