Awards

• Commended for CHOICE 2021
• Commended for How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 2021
• Winner of Mary Washington 2021
• Winner of VAF Lowell 2021

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""In this groundbreaking study, Thomas C. Hubka examines the surprisingly ill-equipped houses of the broad middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century, charting the changes to the floor plan and the introduction of new technologies. Amply illustrated, Hubka’s study redefines the middle class and reinterprets its housing, offering a new understanding of how most Americans became modern.""—Alison K. Hoagland, author of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country ""This book is the most important study of common American houses to appear in the past half century. Thomas C. Hubka draws on a lifetime’s investigation of working-class houses in the decades before World War II to show us how and why the single-family houses of the contemporary ‘middle-majority’ sprung from these modest dwellings. Hubka has established an agenda that should engross architectural historians for years.""—Dell Upton, author of American Architecture: A Thematic History ""Architects, historians, housing advocates, and other people interested in the houses most Americans live in should find much to like in How the Working Class Became Modern.""—Daily Dose of Architecture   ""This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on a visual journey of all types of common houses belonging to America’s ‘middle majority.’""—Technology and Culture   ""Hubka’s book becomes the new bible of this architecture for material culture studies, architectural historians, and sociologists. ""—CHOICE   ""Hubka rises to the challenge of analyzing such a large number of structures (somewhere upwards of 80 million houses) on a national level.""—Winterthur Portfolio   ""Collectors will find the book illuminating for its contextual factors: the space and the place where collections reside.""—New York-Pennsylvania Collector  

In this groundbreaking study, Thomas C. Hubka examines the surprisingly ill-equipped houses of the broad middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century, charting the changes to the floor plan and the introduction of new technologies. Amply illustrated, Hubka's study redefines the middle class and reinterprets its housing, offering a new understanding of how most Americans became modern. -Alison K. Hoagland, author of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country This book is the most important study of common American houses to appear in the past half century. Thomas C. Hubka draws on a lifetime's investigation of working-class houses in the decades before World War II to show us how and why the single-family houses of the contemporary 'middle-majority' sprung from these modest dwellings. Hubka has established an agenda that should engross architectural historians for years. -Dell Upton, author of American Architecture: A Thematic History

""In this groundbreaking study, Thomas C. Hubka examines the surprisingly ill-equipped houses of the broad middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century, charting the changes to the floor plan and the introduction of new technologies. Amply illustrated, Hubka’s study redefines the middle class and reinterprets its housing, offering a new understanding of how most Americans became modern.""-Alison K. Hoagland, author of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country ""This book is the most important study of common American houses to appear in the past half century. Thomas C. Hubka draws on a lifetime’s investigation of working-class houses in the decades before World War II to show us how and why the single-family houses of the contemporary ‘middle-majority’ sprung from these modest dwellings. Hubka has established an agenda that should engross architectural historians for years.""-Dell Upton, author of American Architecture: A Thematic History ""Architects, historians, housing advocates, and other people interested in the houses most Americans live in should find much to like in How the Working Class Became Modern.""-Daily Dose of Architecture   ""This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on a visual journey of all types of common houses belonging to America’s ‘middle majority.’""-Technology and Culture   ""Hubka’s book becomes the new bible of this architecture for material culture studies, architectural historians, and sociologists. ""-CHOICE   ""Hubka rises to the challenge of analyzing such a large number of structures (somewhere upwards of 80 million houses) on a national level.""-Winterthur Portfolio   ""Collectors will find the book illuminating for its contextual factors: the space and the place where collections reside.""-New York-Pennsylvania Collector  

"""In this groundbreaking study, Thomas C. Hubka examines the surprisingly ill-equipped houses of the broad middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century, charting the changes to the floor plan and the introduction of new technologies. Amply illustrated, Hubka’s study redefines the middle class and reinterprets its housing, offering a new understanding of how most Americans became modern.""—Alison K. Hoagland, author of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country ""This book is the most important study of common American houses to appear in the past half century. Thomas C. Hubka draws on a lifetime’s investigation of working-class houses in the decades before World War II to show us how and why the single-family houses of the contemporary ‘middle-majority’ sprung from these modest dwellings. Hubka has established an agenda that should engross architectural historians for years.""—Dell Upton, author of American Architecture: A Thematic History ""Architects, historians, housing advocates, and other people interested in the houses most Americans live in should find much to like in How the Working Class Became Modern.""—Daily Dose of Architecture   ""This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on a visual journey of all types of common houses belonging to America’s ‘middle majority.’""—Technology and Culture   ""Hubka’s book becomes the new bible of this architecture for material culture studies, architectural historians, and sociologists. ""—CHOICE   ""Hubka rises to the challenge of analyzing such a large number of structures (somewhere upwards of 80 million houses) on a national level.""—Winterthur Portfolio   ""Collectors will find the book illuminating for its contextual factors: the space and the place where collections reside.""—New York-Pennsylvania Collector  "

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Thomas C. Hubka is professor emeritus of architecture at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee and author of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England; Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community; and Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common Houses.

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