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D e s i g n i n g t h e C r e a t i v e C h i l D ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, AND AMERICAN CULTURE SERIES Katherine Solomonson and Abigail A. Van Slyck, Series Editors Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943 A n n m A r i e A d A m s Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America d i A n n e H A r r i s Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture P A u l A l u P k i n Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War d Av i d m o n t e y n e Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America A m y F. o g A t A Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915 J e s s i c A e l l e n s e w e l l 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front A n d r e w m . s H A n k e n A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960 A b i g A i l A . vA n s ly c k The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States c A r l A y A n n i [52.205.218.160] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 02:57 GMT) designing tHe CREATIVE cHild Playthings and Places in Midcentury America amy F. Ogata Architecture, landscape, and American culture series u ni v ersit y of min n esota pr ess min n e a polis london Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Fund of the College Art Association. Portions of chapter 2 were published in “Creative Playthings: Educational Toys and Postwar American Culture,” Winterthur Portfolio 39, nos. 2–3 (2004): 129–56. Portions of chapter 3 were published in “Building Imagination in Postwar American Children’s Rooms,” Studies in the Decorative Arts 16, no. 1 (2008–9): 126–42. Portions of chapter 4 were published in “Building for Learning in Postwar American Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no. 4 (2008): 562–91, and as “The Heathcote School: An Object Lesson,” Senses and Society 4, no. 3 (2009): 347–52. Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce material in this book. If any proper acknowledgment has not been included here, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher. Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Ogata, Amy Fumiko Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America / Amy F. Ogata. (Architecture, landscape, and American culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8166-7960-7 (hc)—isbn 978-0-8166-7961-4 (pb) 1. Children—United States—Social conditions—20th century. 2. Creative ability in children —United States. 3. Play environments—United States. 4. Design—Human factors— United States. I. Title. hq792.u5039o 2013 155.4'13550973—dc23 2012050732 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 [52.205.218.160] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 02:57 GMT) F O R J A M E S A N D F E L I X This page intentionally left blank. ...