Nicole C. Rudolph

At Home in Postwar France (eBook, PDF)

Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort

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Produktbeschreibung

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 modernity. This volume identifies the "right to comfort" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782385882
• Artikelnr.: 42830353

Autorenporträt

Nicole C. Rudolph is Academic Director of the Honors College at Adelphi University in New York, where she is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She also serves on the Editorial Board of French Politics, Culture & Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of 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,
1959-1961
Chapter 6. Beyond the Functionalist Cell to the Urban Fabric, 1966-1973
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index