At home in postwar France : modern mass housing and the right to comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph
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| Autore: |
Rudolph Nicole C.
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| Titolo: |
At home in postwar France : modern mass housing and the right to comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-588-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797164203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Berghahn monographs in French studies ; ; Volume 14.