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Modern in the Middle - Chicago Houses 1929-75 (Hardcover)
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Modern in the Middle - Chicago Houses 1929-75 (Hardcover)
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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. Authors Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo
Sabatino survey dozens of influential houses by architects whose
contributions are ripe for reappraisal, such as Paul Schweikher,
Harry Weese, Keck & Keck, and William Pereira. From the bold,
early example of the Battledeck House by Henry Dubin (1930) to John
Vinci and Lawrence Kenny's gem the Freeark House (1975), the
generation-spanning residences discussed here reveal how these
architects contended with climate and natural setting while
negotiating the dominant influences of Wright and Mies. They also
reveal how residential clients - typically middle-class
professionals, progressive in their thinking - helped to trailblaze
modern architecture in America. Though reflecting different
approaches to site, space, structure, and materials, the examples
in Modern in the Middle reveal an abundance of astonishing houses
that have never been collected into one study - until now.
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