At Home in Postwar France : : Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Rudolph, Nicole C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Modern Homes for a Modern Nation -- Chapter 1. Building Homes, Building a Nation -- Chapter 2. Designing for the Classless Society -- Chapter 3. The Salon des Arts Ménagers -- Part II. Mass Homes for a Changing Society -- Chapter 4. Housing for the Greatest Number -- Chapter 5. “Who Is the Author of a Dwelling?” -- Chapter 6. Beyond the Functionalist Cell to the Urban Fabric, 1966–1973 -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index