Description: French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980 (Ashgate Studies in Architecture) [Hardcover] Maniaque-Benton, Caroline Product Overview 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. Read more Details Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (November 28, 2011) Language : English Hardcover : 244 pages ISBN-10 : 1409423867 ISBN-13 : 67 Item Weight : 1.55 pounds Dimensions : 6.75 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches Best Sellers Rank: #10,700,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3,979 in Geography (Books) #8,887 in Architecture (Books) #12,448 in Architecture Reference (Books) #3,979 in Geography (Books) #8,887 in Architecture (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 1409423867
ISBN10: 1409423867
ISBN13: 9781409423867
EAN: 9781409423867
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Brand: Routledge
GTIN: 09781409423867
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology / General, General, Regional
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 24 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Architecture, Social Science
Author: Caroline Maniaque-Benton
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture Ser.
Item Width: 7.2 in
Format: Hardcover
