At Home in Postwar France : : Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph.
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 s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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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