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French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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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.
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