Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home

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Siobhan Moroney

Chicagoland Dream Houses

How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home

Siobhan Moroney

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University of Illinois Press
23 January 2024

Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

“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

By: Siobhan Moroney
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252045516
ISBN 10: 0252045513
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 23 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home

An impressively documented work on an important, generally overlooked postwar homes competition. What makes the book exceptional is that it covers 'architecture and design for everyday life, ' created by trained architects along with others, including those who were talented amateurs. That populist aspect makes Moroney's work compelling and very different from many other books. --John Zukowsky, author of Building Chicago: The Architectural Masterworks