Ernst Georg May was a German architect and city planner.
Ernst May in 1926
'Zig-Zag Houses' in Frankfurt.
The "Rundling" in Römerstadt, Frankfurt
Ernst May house in Dnipro, Ukraine.
Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing what is known as the Frankfurt
Ernst May
…Siedlung Römerstadt, and some of the structures are colloquially known as Zickzackhausen (zig-zag houses). In 1926 May sent for Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky to join him in Frankfurt. Lihotzky was a kindred spirit and applied the same sort of functional clarity to household problems, and so in Frankfurt…
Margarete Schütte Lihotzky Brandstätter Verlag
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky at age 100 in 1997
Grave of honour in the Vienna Central Cemetery