At Home in Postar France Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort [Hardcover]

After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home.At Home in Postwar Franceexamines 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 theTrente 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.

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 M?nagers: 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 dHabitation, 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

Nicole C. Rudolphteaches French Studies at Adelphi University in New York, where she directs the major in InternatilÃ