Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia
(Part of the Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design Series)
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During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813937612
ISBN13:9780813937618
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
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