‘Who Should Be the Author of a Dwelling?’ Architects versus Housewives in 1950s France

Adler, K. H. (editor) / Hamilton, Carrie (editor) / Rudolph, Nicole (author)

Homes and Homecomings ; 87-105

Gender & History Special Issue Book Series

2010-10-22

19 pages

9781444328240 , 9781444336504

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444328240.ch4

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

policymakers, successful ‐ economic growth and prosperity in France, the trente glorieuses , building homes, rebuilding a nation ‐ context, in which cellule developed , architectural profession ‐ and French reconstruction , modernist architects, apartments as cellule ‐ reconfiguration of domestic space , Famille et habitation ‐ whose functionalism , modernist architects, heralding the cellule ‐ in Le Corbusier's, as a ‘machine for living’ , utility, ‘Who Should Be the Author of a Dwelling?’ ‐ architects versus housewives, 1950s in France , families, from different social backgrounds ‐ ‘one‐size‐fits‐all’ modern home , modernist architects, and to whom state planners ‐ turn for expertise , standardisation of domestic architecture