Chicagoland Dream Houses

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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 “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 “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 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

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