Author: ALBRECHT, DONALD; CRAWFORD, MARGARET (1948-)
Title: World War II and the American dream : how wartime building changed a nation / exhibition organized and catalog edited by Donald Albrecht ; essays by Margaret Crawford ... [et al.]
Description: Washington. D.C. Cambridge. Mass. ; London : National Building Museum ; MIT Press 1995. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xli. 288 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Notes; Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Building Museum. Nov. 11. 1994-Dec. 31. 1995. Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-279) and index. Contents; Enlisting modernism / Peter S. Reed -- Scarcity and promise : materials and American domestic culture during World War II / Robert Friedel -- Daily life on the home front : women. blacks. and the struggle for public housing / Margaret Crawford -- The airplane and the garden city : regional transformations during World War II / Greg Hise -- Building for war. preparing for peace : World War II and the military-industrial complex / Joel Davidson -- War is swell / Michael Sorkin. Subjects; Housing — United States — History — 20th century — Exhibitions. Building — Social aspects — United States — History — 20th century — Exhibitions. World War. 1939-1945 — Economic aspects — United States — Exhibitions. United States — Social life and customs — 1918-1945. Housing — History. Museum. historic sites. gallery & art guides ; Architecture. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. ARCHITECTURE / General. Genre; Catalogue. ISBN: 0262510839. Weight in Kg appr.:

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