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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

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defense housing

Museum of Modern Art

Department: Department for Continuing Education

Date Added: 30/09/2014

Duration: 00:22:38

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