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At home in postwar France : modern mass housing and the right to comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph



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Autore: Rudolph Nicole C. Visualizza persona
Titolo: At home in postwar France : modern mass housing and the right to comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina: 363.5/80944
Soggetto topico: Housing - France - History - 20th century
Housing policy - France - History - 20th century
Architecture, Domestic - France - History - 20th century
Dwellings - France - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: France Social conditions 1945-1995
France Civilization 1945-
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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, 1953-1958
Chapter 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 moder
Titolo autorizzato: At home in postwar France  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-588-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821917803321
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Serie: Berghahn monographs in French studies ; ; Volume 14.