Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism During Les Trente Glorieuses

ISBN-13: 9780367556501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str.

Bullock, Nicholas

Opis

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in 1940 to a place at the centre of the new Europe.

Recenzje

This is a fascinating story, very well told. It dives into great detail on some aspects, like the determined efforts to bring in modern construction methods, or the evolving shape of architects’ education, but not in a way that breaks up the narrative, and the treatment of housing and planning choices in Paris and its region is crystal-clear. It’s clearly based on a huge amount of reading and research…knocked into a compelling story of a state and a profession grappling with vital social issues, in ways that sometimes recall British struggles, and sometimes look culturally very different….this is a masterful review of a fascinating period in the development history of our endlessly-interesting neighbour, full of insights into the professions and culture that shaped an era.

Martin Crookston, Built Environment Vol 49 No 2

Spis treści

Preface  Abbreviations  Introduction: Architecture, Urbanism and the Trente Glorieuses  Part 1: Modernisation Takes Command: From Austerity to Affluence  1. Reconstruction 1945–56: rebuilding or modernisation?  2. Industrialising the building industry  3. The grands ensembles and the modernisation of housing, 1953–62  4. Modern France at home: shaping the new domestic ideal, 1953–63  5. Public architecture of the 1950s: towards a new architecture for state and industry  6. ‘15,000 hectares to reconquer’: the struggle to modernise Paris, 1955–65  7. Modernising the Paris region: from the SDAU to the New Towns, 1965–75  Part 2: Opposing Modernisation: From Resistance to Revolt  8. Modernism versus modernisation: the Unité d’habitation at Marseille  9. Radicals and opposition to the modern city in the 1960s  10. Revolt and the search for new directions, 1968–73  Epilogue: 1975, France transformed  Image Credits  Index

O autorze

Nicholas Bullock, a Fellow of King’s College, was Professor of the History of Architecture and Urbanism of the 20th Century in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, and lectured at the Architectural Association in London for over 40 years. Originally admitted for modern languages, he read architecture at Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Sir Leslie Martin. He was a founder member of the Martin Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies, established in 1967. He has published widely on the architecture, housing and planning issues of the 20th century in Britain, Germany and France.