04457nam 2201033 450 991079716420332120200520144314.01-78238-588-610.1515/9781782385882(CKB)3710000000411329(EBL)1707821(SSID)ssj0001498483(PQKBManifestationID)11894812(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001498483(PQKBWorkID)11505787(PQKB)10823245(MiAaPQ)EBC1707821(Au-PeEL)EBL1707821(CaPaEBR)ebr11052975(CaONFJC)MIL782708(OCoLC)908551814(DE-B1597)636319(DE-B1597)9781782385882(EXLCZ)99371000000041132920150523h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt home in postwar France modern mass housing and the right to comfort /Nicole C. RudolphNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn,2015.©20151 online resource (271 p.)Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ;Volume 14Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-587-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.At Home in Postwar France; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I - Modern Homes for a Modern Nation; Chapter 1 - Building Homes, Building a Nation: State Experiments in Modern Living, 1945-1952; Chapter 2 - Designing for the Classless Society: Modernist Architects and the ""Art of Living""; Chapter 3 - The Salon des Arts Ménagers: Teaching Women How to Make the Modern Home; Part II - Mass Homes for a Changing Society; Chapter 4 - Housing for the Greatest Number: The Housing Crisis and the Cellule d'Habitation, 1953-1958Chapter 5 - ""Who Is the Author of a Dwelling?"" From User to Inhabitant, 1959-1961Chapter 6 - Beyond the Functionalist Cell to the Urban Fabric, 1966-1973; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of moderBerghahn monographs in French studies ;Volume 14.HousingFranceHistory20th centuryHousing policyFranceHistory20th centuryArchitecture, DomesticFranceHistory20th centuryDwellingsFranceHistory20th centuryFranceSocial conditions1945-1995FranceCivilization1945-architects.architecture.art of living.democracy.democratization.design textbook.french history.french home.french society.generational.history.home decor.interior design.life changes.modern home.modern mass home.modernity.nation-building.political.project of modernization.rebuilding after the war.retrospective.right to comfort.social engineering.sociology.suburban.village settings.ww ii.HousingHistoryHousing policyHistoryArchitecture, DomesticHistoryDwellingsHistory363.5/80944Rudolph Nicole C.1577292MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797164203321At home in postwar France3855801UNINA