Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses

<p><ul> <li>Explains the role played by architecture and urbanism in the modernisation of France during the trente glorieuses, the three decades of growing prosperity that followed the end of WWII.</li> <li>Sets the discussion of architecture and urbanism in the social, political and economic context of the time.</li> <li>Beautifully illustrated and written in an engaging and clear manner, the central focus of the book is the work of the architects and planners of the time, many well-known beyond France. Architects include: Le Corbusier, Lods, Lurçat and Prouvé, Georges Candilis, Atelier Montrouge, Bernard Zehrfuss, Henri Dubuisson and Henri Bernard.</li> </ul></p>

Arts & Photography

Bullock, Nicholas

Architecture

Routledge

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Building the Post-War World

Building the Post-war World examines the way in which World War II and the ten years of reconstruction that followed saw the establishment of modern architecture in Britain. It charts the opportunities created by post-war rebuilding showing how the spirit of innovation and experimentation necessary to winning the war found applications in reconstruction. Above all it shows how hopes for a new and better world became linked to the fortunes of new architecture.

<p>Building the Post-war World examines the way in which World War II and the ten years of reconstruction that followed saw the establishment of modern architecture in Britain. It charts the opportunities created by post-war rebuilding showing how the spirit of innovation and experimentation necessary to winning the war found applications in reconstruction. Above all it shows how hopes for a new and better world became linked to the fortunes of new architecture.</p>

This book was originally published in 1985. During the 1920s and 1930s, a series of housing developments was built in Europe, based on unprecedented levels of public finance allied to innovative policies of planning, and architectural design. How did these developments, which were the foundation of later social housing programmes, come into being? This study sets out to answer the question by looking into the evolution of the movement for housing reform in Germany and France, from the middle of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War. This book also examines the social and political nature of 'the housing problem', and traces the response through a series of central themes: the public health campaign; land reform and planning proposals; the elaboration of architectural types; and the search for fresh means of financing the construction of cheap housing.

The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914 (Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies, Series Number 9)

Politics & Social Sciences

Read, James

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

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Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses

Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses

Building the Post-War World

Building the Post-War World

The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914 (Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies, Series Number 9)

The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914 (Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies, Series Number 9)