The Austrian architect and designer, Margarete Schuette Lihotzky, has died in Vienna from influenza.

Margarete Schuette-Lihotzky, who would have been one-hundred and three on Sunday, was the first woman to qualify as an architect in Austria.

A lifelong communist, she was best known for designing the world's first standard fitted kitchen the Frankfurt kitchen in 1926. She also a prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement in Austria during the second world war.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service