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

Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses image
ISBN-10:

0367556502

ISBN-13:

9780367556501

Edition: 1
Released: Nov 22, 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover, 294 pages
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Description:

  • 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.
  • Sets the discussion of architecture and urbanism in the social, political and economic context of the time.
  • 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.












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