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Villas 50 en France by Raphaelle Saint-Pierre, 1st Ed Rare Hard to Find Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Publisher, Norma, Paris, France, 2005. In French. "While the design of the 50s is in vogue and the architecture of the reconstruction has been much studied, the little is known about private houses of this period. Until then the house were reserved for the upper middle class and aimed at modern stars such as Robert Mallet-Stevens, Pierre Chareau and Le Corbusier, the villa experienced a remarkable boom in post-war France with the emergence of a more modest enlightened bourgeoisie. In the shadow of the large housing estates, it was a kind of laboratory that allowed architects to innovate, but also to put into practice the achievements and teachings of the masters, while diverting and adapting them, with the vitality and spirit of provocation characteristics of the time. This domestic architecture, both experimental and materialistic, often utopian, caricatured by Jacques Tati or Spirou, benefited from the help of the Salons and competitions organized by extraordinarily daring and inventive magazines. Showing the extent to which its modernity differed from the theoretical purism that prevailed before the war, the author Raphaëlle Saint-Pierre analyzes in the first part of the book the French architectural vocabulary that was put in place, nourished by American, Scandinavian, Japanese and Brazilian influences, swinging between organicism, rationalism, brutalism and total art, without derogating from the rules of functionality of the plan to the new imperatives of equipment and to the now essential relationship between habitat and nature. Secondly, the detailed visit of twenty-five houses, built by masters such as Le Corbusier, André Lurçat, Alvar Aalto and Philip Johnson, by young architects such as Claude Parent or André Wogenscky, engineers and artists such as Jean Prouvé, André Bloc and Pierre Soulages, allows us to discover the richness of this profoundly original architectural heritage."
- Dimensions:Height: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)Width: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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