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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
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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.
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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.
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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
