Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975

Abstract

Since Spring 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the house became one of the most discussed and investigated themes in the architectural discourse and a topic of conversation involving several disciplines, not only the most related to it, such as architecture, interior design, and urban planning. Doctors, health officials, sociologists, anthropologists, and also almost every media expert paid attention to residential spaces where everyone, all of a sudden and unexpectedly, moved to and spent most of the time, for months. We all experienced the dynamics of these last year and a half, during which the house became the core of everyone’s life experience, and, almost getting back to the archetypes, the most important shelter and refuge, the protective nest and the comforting shell HOME CULTURES VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1 PP 73–77 REPRINTS AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE PUBLISHERS PHOTOCOPYING PERMITTED BY LICENSE ONLY © 2022 INFORMA UK LIMITED, TRADING AS TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP.