During the 50's and 60's a lot was changing in both commercial and residential design spheres. A typical home from this era would look like the one pictured below. People were still ordering from catalogues and were very concerned with keeping up with what their neighbor was doing. This was a time about creating the perfect image of a family and household. What resulted was a great deal of similarity from one home to the next. Although this type of home was certainly not all that was happening in residential design it certainly was a large part of it.
Commercial design however was more concerned with being the first to do something, this resulted in a lot of forms that were very different. During the time of the atomic age and the race for space, structures had a very futuristic feel. They were easily differentiated from one another unlike most homes of the era.
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