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Monthly Archives: June 2009
MidCentury Suburbs Part 7: Modernize your garage door!
The garage door was yet another point of elaborate decoration for the MidCentury home. It provided a broad canvas for designers to decorate; in the 1950s and 1960s, the automobile was newly risen to its place of supreme importance, and … Continue reading
Posted in Midcentury Modernism
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Quarry town
The fascination of a rock quarry isn’t hard to grasp. Here in the unendingly flat Midwest, a quarry is a shocking interruption of the landscape. The walls are vertical cliffs, their relief impressive in their own right and doubly so … Continue reading
Posted in industry
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MidCentury Suburbs Part 6: A catalog of housing types
The city of Chicago exploded into the 1950s and 1960s. Thousands and thousands of houses and apartments rose up on the ever-expanding urban frontier, in a remarkably unified ensemble of styles. There’s endless variation in the architectural details, but a … Continue reading
Posted in building types, Midcentury Modernism
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Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Last week, while traveling about, I decided to take a detour south of Touhy near O’Hare. It was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done. Sandwiched between Bryn Mawr, Cumberland, Lawrence, and East River Road is the largest concentration … Continue reading
The Infinite City
If you asked me to tell you what Chicago looks like, I would tell you it looks like this: a thousand cars, a thousand streetlights, a thousand jumbled brick buildings, a thousand miles of sidewalk, all of it repeated without … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Chicago, The Infinite City
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Wild Western Midcentury
In architecture, the dominant image from the 1950s and 1960s is Modernism. Clean lines. Forward thinking. Leaving the past behind. The embrace of technology. Machine purity. The march of progress. The future! The middle decades of the Twentieth Century are … Continue reading
Posted in building types, Midcentury Modernism
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