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100	1		_aMoroney, Siobhan, _d1960- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aChicagoland dream houses : _bhow a mid-century architecture competition reimagined the American home. / _cSiobhan Moroney. _htxt
264		1	_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2024.
300			_ax, 270 p. : _bill. ; plans ; _c25 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
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337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aAcknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- 1 Shortages: The Postwar Housing Crisis and Architectural Competitions 5 -- 2 To the Rescue: The Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition 15 -- 3 Spreading the News: Putting the Competition before the Public 38 -- 4 A More Permanent Legacy: Publishing the Prize Homes Book 49 -- 5 House Design and Domestic Life: Analyzing the Houses 62 -- 6 Modernism Skepticism: Contemporaneous Views of the Modern Aesthetic 91 -- 7 Competing Visions: Other Architectural Competitions 111 -- 8 Breaking Ground: The Building Project 156 -- 9 Houses in Flux: Prize Homes Houses Evolve 186 -- Conclusion: A Competition Like No Other 208 -- Appendix I: Known Entries to the Prize Homes Competition 215 -- Appendix II: Prize Homes Competition Winners and the Designs Known to Be Built 219 -- Notes 221 -- Index 263 --
520			_a"Sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, the 1945 Chicagoland Prize Homes competition solicited designs by mostly unknown architects. The goal: to provide beautiful yet practical houses for returning WWII veterans and middle-class residents of the city and suburbs. In-depth and extensively illustrated, Chicagoland Dream Houses revisits this overlooked chapter in Chicago and architectural history. Organizers conceived the competition to help remedy the postwar housing crisis and it received front-page news coverage and an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. It also had the rare distinction of taking designs from paper to reality, an accomplishment that brought out two hundred thousand people to tour finished homes. Yet the contest ultimately failed in its aim to inspire new home construction that would solve Chicago's housing shortage. Siobhan Moroney situates the competition in its time both socially and architecturally, analyzing floor plans and other materials to reveal how the designs reflected the expectations of middle-class families and the social norms that dictated their everyday lives and aspirations"--
650		0	_aArchitecture, Domestic _xCompetitions _zIllinois _zChicago.
650		0	_aArchitecture, Domestic _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSuburban homes _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aMiddle class _xDwellings _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aArchitecture and society _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory _y20th century.
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