At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York CityA talk with Nicole Rudolph, professor of French Studies at Adelphi University. From Maison Française: After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. In At Home in Postwar France Nicole Rudolph argues that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, designers and…