French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980 - Caroline Maniaque-Benton

French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980

Buch | Softcover
244 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92559-2 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with French architects who visited the United States in the 1960s and1970s and then assume
French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with French architects who visited the United States in the 1960s-1970s and then assumed influential positions in the press and education in France. Some of these architects found in non-mainstream America and its radical groups of architectural drop-outs a liberating force, free of the taint of American capitalism and the high-investment technology. Often living in alternative student communities, they saw highly innovative, low-cost technical and structural systems placed in the service of collective forms of living which represented a critique not only of professional architectural practice but also of bourgeois forms of living. Many of them also studied in American schools of architecture and came in contact with an intellectual and interdisciplinary style of architectural education unavailable in France at that time.

Caroline Maniaque-Benton is associate professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais where she teaches the history of architecture. She received her doctoral degree from University Paris-VIII. She is the author of Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009). She has received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Fellowship of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Framing the debates around technology; Discovering the alternative scene: from Sausolito to Drop City; Documenting the architectural counterculture; Exhibiting vernacular structures and marginal architecture in France; Publication networks in the United States: from the Whole Earth catalog to Shelter; Counter culture à la française: self-build, publishing, teaching and research {XE 'culture alternative'}; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.10.2024
Reihe/Serie Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-032-92559-0 / 1032925590
ISBN-13 978-1-032-92559-2 / 9781032925592
Zustand Neuware
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