PRIZE HOMES
The Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune: PRIZE HOMES [92 Houses, Complete with Floor Plans and Elevations, including the 24 Prize Winners in Full Color and 68 other Excellent Designs Submitted in the Chicago Tribune's $24,000 Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition]. Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Company, 1948. First edition. A very good to near-fine hardcover book bound in full, decorated cloth: light foxing to prelims and cloth edges lightly worn. A nice copy of an exceptional book. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 102 pages illustrating 92 Postwar American residential Designs, complete with floor plans and elevations. This is one of the finest Modern housing anthologies I have seen -- if you want pretty Julius Shulman photographs of Eames Chairs and Calder Mobiles, look elsewhere; but if you want to see Modern house after house presented with detailed floorplans and elevations, this book will definitely satisfy. My highest recommendation.
From the Book: "This plan book for modern living offers ninety-two houses, complete with floor plans and elevations, including the twenty-four prize winners in full color and sixty-eight other excellent designs submitted in the Chicago Tribune's $24,000 Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition.
A book of up-to-date, postwar homes -- every design an original one -- conceived to give fullest expression to the latest and best thinking in small home construction and to utilize to best advantage the most practical and economical ideas, methods, and building materials.
In an effort to induce America's foremost archietctural talent to create plans reflecting the latest and best thinking in the design and construction of small homes for the average family, the Chicago Tribune announced the Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition.
Offering $24,000 in cash awards, the Chicago Tribune invited architectural talent from everywhere to submit solutions three typical housing problems in the form of floor plans, elevations, and details of construction."
Architects include Arthur Jack Sackville-West, Curtis S. Woolford Jr., Ralph Delos Peterson Jr., W. R. Burns Jr., Frederick E. Sloan, Eric Wenstrand, Howard J. Uebelhack, Raymond W. Garbe, Arthur R. Myhrum, George R. Klinkhardt, Ray Stuermer, Walter J. Thies, Charles W. Schroeder, J. Floyd Yewell, D. Coder Taylor, Edwin B. Storako, Charles Kenneth Clinton, Ernst Budke, R. W. Tempest, Frank Boemerman, Hugh M. G. Garden, Oliver Lundquist, Richard Y. Mine, O. J. Baker, F. D. Miles, Stephen J. Alling, Bernard H. Bradley, Anderson & Simonds Architects, Merwin H. Freeman, Robert Major, Elmer Babb, John W. Davis, Robert S. Arnold, Benjamin H. Stein, Olen L. Puckett, Carl L. Cederstand, E. H. Glidden Jr., Eben D. Finney, Lucille McKirahan, Heidt Associates, Herbert C. Hanson, Henry Martorano, Dewitt C. Robinson, Robert A. Genchek, Edward A. Dwyer, Charles T. Hagerstrom, Erling H. Bugge, Victor Chiljean, Carl H. Fricke, Leonard Wayman, Lester J. Jorge, James A. Wares, Paul A. Kilp, Robert William Blachmik c/o Harold Spitznagel, G. Kenneth Duprey, Jonathan A. Taylor, W. Sanford Full, Mel C. Ensign, David Weston Dykeman Jr., R. Hugh Crawford, Henry Fliess, Robert M. Shields, Harold E. Jessen, E. Stewart Williams, R. Charles Martini, Edward L. Burch Jr., Joseph C. Gora, Edward W. Hanson, Robert S. Arnold, Joseph Prisant, William Campbell Wright, William G. Pfeufer, Bernard James Slater, Patrick Gallaugher, Vsevolod A. Prisadsky, Charles W. Koch, Charles K. Berg, Rudolph J. Nedved, Elisabeth Kimball Nedved, James Bennett Hughes, Tohzo Nishiseki, Miriam S. Hurford, Carl F. Huboi, Robert F. Pierce, Charles R. Hogan, Raymond E. Clouse, John C. Close, Herman H. Lackner, William Boedefeld, and Harold B. Zook.
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