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Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75

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Benjamin, Susan; Sabatino, Michelangelo

Monacelli  2020

SKU: S02740

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism.

Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism--the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region's built environment.

296 p, ills colour & bw, hardcover, English