Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75

by Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580935265
• ISBN13: 9781580935265
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 11.3"