{"product_id":"chicagoland-dream-houses-9780252045516","title":"Chicagoland Dream Houses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChicagoland 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 19291975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moroney's book digs deep into the mid-century housing market and the mindset that produced so many homes after the Second World War and through to the present. . . . Readers may never see the vast stock of postwar homes the same way again. Not only did their designs refashion the family home, they created an ideal made possible by a combination of media attention, marketing and government intervention.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewCity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eBuilding Chicago: The Architectural Masterworks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shortages: The Postwar Housing Crisis and Architectural Competitions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e To the Rescue: The \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e’s Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Spreading the News: Putting the Competition before the Public \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A More Permanent Legacy: Publishing the \u003ci\u003ePrize Homes\u003c\/i\u003e Book \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e House Design and Domestic Life: Analyzing the Houses \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Modernism Skepticism: Contemporaneous Views of the Modern Aesthetic \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Competing Visions: Other Architectural Competitions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Breaking Ground: The Building Project \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Houses in Flux: Prize Homes Houses Evolve \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Conclusion: A Competition Like No Other\u003cp\u003e Appendix I Known Entries to the Prize Homes Competition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Appendix II Prize Homes Competition Winners and the Designs Known to Be Built\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400459592023,"sku":"9780252045516","price":87.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252045516.jpg?v=1730470734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chicagoland-dream-houses-9780252045516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}