Floorplan for Chicago Tribune “Better Homes for Better Living” competition

Floorplan for Chicago Tribune “Better Homes for Better Living” competition

Lawrence Technological University

September 21, 2020

Lawrence Technological University

Schnee, Ruth Adler, 1923-

Cranbrook Museum of Art

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

visual works

1946

Michigan (state)

Bloomfield Hills (inhabited place)

Modern (style or period)

floor plans (orthographic projections)

View of framed floor plan by Ruth Adler Schnee for a design competition sponsored by the Chicago Tribune in 1946. This piece was part of an exhibition entitled, "Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living," held at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI, December 14, 2019 - March 15, 2020. Printed on placard: In her winning design for the Chicago Tribune’s 1947 “Better Rooms for Better Living” competition, Ruth conjures the satisfying precision of high modernism’s glass and steel, with warm and inviting attention to the needs of home’s imaginary residents. Glass is used for its smoothness, clarity, and ability to conduct light and color as much as its ability to open the space into the landscape.

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