At Home in Postwar France 1st Edition by Nicole C Rudolph 9781782385882 1782385886

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• ISBN 10: 1782385886
• ISBN 13: 9781782385882
• Author:  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 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 contents:

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
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

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