MOOW — Architecture, interiors and objects, and why they became the way they are

Architecture, interiors and objects —
and why they became the way they are.

Line diagram of the Frankfurt Kitchen's narrow galley layout, showing the sequence of storage units, work surface, sink, and stove along one wall.

Objects

Why the Frankfurt Kitchen Became the Template for Modern Domestic Life

A 1926 blueprint for cutting a housewife's steps became the ancestor of every fitted kitchen since — and quietly wrote a gendered division of labor into the architecture of the home.

18 September 2026

Three worlds

About MOOW

MOOW is a journal about the reasoning behind familiar spaces and objects — why a kitchen, a staircase or a chair ended up the way it did, and what that choice still costs or gives us.

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