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"Good Housing depends on You”: Wartime Housing, 1942

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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
MoMA’s 1942 Wartime Housing exhibition demonstrated that housing contributed to the war effort. Through innovative display, the museum proposed that new materials, modern techniques, and community planning would create lively permanent communities.

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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
People
Erin McKellar
Keywords
defense housing
Eliot Noyes
Museum of Modern Art
USA
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 30/09/2014
Duration: 00:04:22

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