Chicagoland Dream Houses

How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home

Siobhan Moroney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04551-6 (ISBN)

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“Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago’s twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.”--Michelangelo Sabatino, coauthor of Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975

Siobhan Moroney is an associate professor of politics and the chair of American Studies at Lake Forest College.

Acknowledgments Introduction

Shortages: The Postwar Housing Crisis and Architectural Competitions
To the Rescue: The Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition
Spreading the News: Putting the Competition before the Public
A More Permanent Legacy: Publishing the Prize Homes Book
House Design and Domestic Life: Analyzing the Houses
Modernism Skepticism: Contemporaneous Views of the Modern Aesthetic
Competing Visions: Other Architectural Competitions
Breaking Ground: The Building Project
Houses in Flux: Prize Homes Houses Evolve

Conclusion: A Competition Like No Other Appendix I Known Entries to the Prize Homes Competition

Appendix II Prize Homes Competition Winners and the Designs Known to Be Built

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	75 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-252-04551-3 / 0252045513
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04551-6 / 9780252045516
Zustand	Neuware