Sunday, April 12, 2015

Dr. Nicole Rudolph, French Program




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After World War II, France undertook a national modernizing project, one that included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers — and argues that 1) modernizers looked to domestic space as a site for social engineering and nation-building; 2) designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and 3) the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects’, planners’, and...

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