Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Shortages: The Postwar Housing Crisis and Architectural Competitions
- To the Rescue: The Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoland Prize Homes Competition
- Spreading the News: Putting the Competition before the Public
- A More Permanent Legacy: Publishing the Prize Homes Book
- House Design and Domestic Life: Analyzing the Houses
- Modernism Skepticism: Contemporaneous Views of the Modern Aesthetic
- Competing Visions: Other Architectural Competitions
- Breaking Ground: The Building Project
- Houses in Flux: Prize Homes Houses Evolve
Conclusion: A Competition Like No Other
Appendix I Known Entries to the Prize Homes Competition
Appendix II Prize Homes Competition Winners and the Designs Known to Be Built
Notes
Index