At Home in Postwar France

Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-804-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudolph, Nicole C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolph, Nicole C.
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.