Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945 1965

by Barbara Miller Lane

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The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing

While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691167613

ISBN13:9780691167619

Release Date:October 2015

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 8.3" x 10.0"

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