The four featured houses—the Erlanger House, designed with and for the dancer Margaret Erlanger, and the homes of the architects Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams were created to stage music, dance, theater, poetry, and conversation in domestic settings, a unique characteristic of avant-garde culture in and around the University of Illinois. The architects have long been understood regionally as influential teachers and refined, modernist architects. Their greater impact, the exhibition proposes, stems from their role as incubators of mid-century, avant-garde American culture.

"This exhibition—including site-specific works of art by Dot Replinger and Shozo Sato—is explicitly a catalyst for future research. It presents a series of propositions that we expect students, artists, and scholars to interrogate and build upon. In this way, the exhibition is intended to gather new research during its run at Krannert Art Museum rather than present firm conclusions."

From the exhibition website

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