Main entry:

Benjamin, Susan S., author.

Title & Author:

Modern in the middle : Chicago houses 1929-1975 / Susan S. Benjamin, Michelangelo Sabatino ; foreword by Pauline Saliga.

Publication:

New York, New York : Monacelli Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

344 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-339) and index.
Introduction. Foreword / Pauline Saliga ; Modern houses for modern living in Chicago / Michelangelo Sabatino ; Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe : the giants in the room / Susan S. Benjamin -- Portfolio. 1929: Katherine Dummer and Walter T. Fisher House ; 1930: Anne Green and Henry Dubin House ; 1932: Rosalie Brown and Robert H. Morse House ; 1935: Irene Tipler and Paul McCurry House ; 1936: Vine Itschner and Herbert Bruning House ; 1936: Doris Lake and Thomas H. Mullen House ; 1936: Rosalie Strauss and Gustave Weinfeld House ; 1937: Irma Kuppenheimer and Bertram J. Cahn House ; 1937: Josephine Topp and De Forest S. Colburn House ; 1937: Caroline Sinclair and Philip Will Jr. House ; 1938: Madeleine Mlchelson and Philip B. Maher House ; 1938: Dorothy Miller and Paul Schwelkher House ; 1938: Ellen Borden and Adlai E. Stevenson II House ; 1939: Lucile Gottschalk and Aaron Helmbach House ; 1939: Kathryn Dougherty and Lloyd Lewis House ; 1940: Charles Dewey Jr. House and Beach House ; 1940: Marjorie Horton and Winston Elting House ; 1940: Marjorie Candler and William Ganster House ; 1941: Minna Green and Hugh Duncan House I ; 1942: Ellen Newby and Lambert Ennis House ; 1946: Adele Bretzfeld and Willard Gidwltz House ; 1948: Eleanor Knopp and Henry P. Glass House ; 1949: Florence Pass and Erne Frueh House I and II ; 1950: Maggie Sheahan and Le Roy Binkley House ; 1950: Ruth van Sickle and Albert Sam Ford House ; 1950: Marian Short and Stanley G. Harris Jr. House ; 1951: Wilhelmina Plansoen and Edward Dart House I ; 1951: Edith Farnsworth House ; 1951: Rachel Brin and Ralph Helstein House ; 1951: Elizabeth Castle and Robert Muirhead Farmhouse ; 1952: Doris Curry and Jacques Brownson House ; 1952: Maxine Weil and Sigmund Kunstadter House ; 1952: Isabella Gardner and Robert Hall McCormick III House ; 1952: Walter Frazier and William Moulis House ; 1953: Frances Landrum and Ben Rose House ; 1954: Susanne Weese and Robert Drucker House ; 1954: Elizabeth Hunt and John W. Moutoussamy House ; 1954: Margaret Montgomery and Howard Raftery House ; 1955: Priscilla Huffard and H. P. Davis Rockwell House II ; 1957: Alice Lieberman and J. Marion Gutnayer House ; 1957: Kitty Baldwin and Harry Weese House ; 1960: Ruth Koier and Laurence Sjoblom House ; 1960: Donald Wrobleski House ; 1963: Joan Henderson and George E. Johnson Sr. House ; 1964: Priscilla Huffard and H. P. Davis Rockwell House I ; 1966: Ming Djang and Chung Kuo Liao House ; 1969: Sheila Adelman and David Haid House ; 1970: Donna Parr and Charles R. Walgreen III House ; 1974: Margaret Berman and Paul Lurie House ; 1974: Dawn Clark and Walter Netsch House ; 1975: Arlene Rose and Richard Don House ; 1975: Ruth Nelson and Robert J. Freeark House ; 1975: Iris Smith and Paul Goldstein House -- Coda. Revising the modern house in Chicago / Michelangelo Sabatino ; Chicago : moving modern forward / Serge Ambrose, Susan S. Benjamin, Michelangelo Sabatino -- Notes -- The authors and their homes. Michelangelo Sabatino & Serge Ambrose: Sylvia Valha and Francis J. Benda House ; Susan & Wayne Benjamin: Ruth Danielson and Hilmer V. Swenson House.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781580935265 hardcover
1580935265 hardcover

Subject:

Pereira, William L. 1909-1985
Vinci, John 1937-
Weese, Harry 1915-1998
Keck and Keck Chicago, Ill.
Architecture, Domestic Illinois Chicago Region.
Modern movement (Architecture) Illinois Chicago Region.
Architect-designed houses Illinois Chicago Region.
Architects
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Dwellings
Architektur
Geschichte
Haus
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Sabatino, Michelangelo, author.
Saliga, Pauline A., writer of foreword.

Chicago houses 1929-1975

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308722
Call No.: BIB 254074
Status: Available