Main entry:

Maniaque Benton, Caroline.

Title & Author:

French encounters with the American counterculture, 1960-1980 / Caroline Maniaque-Benton.

Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2011.

Description:

xxv, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Framing the debates around technology -- Discovering the alternative scene: from Sausalito 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 -- Counterculture à la française: self-build, publishing, teaching and research.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
This publication was facilitated by the CCA Study Centre Visiting Scholars Program.

Summary:

"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 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 dropouts 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."--P. [4] of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781409423867 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409423867 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society United States History 20th century.
Architecture and society France History 20th century.
Visionary architecture United States.
Architecture France American influences.
Counterculture United States.
Architecture et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société France Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture visionnaire États-Unis.
Architecture France Influence américaine.
Contre-culture États-Unis.
Architecture American influences.
Architecture and society.
Counterculture.
Visionary architecture.
Architektur
Gegenkultur
Architecture France History 20th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century
Architecture students United States History 20th century.
French students United States History 20th century.
Counterculture United States History 20th century.
Architecture students Political activity France History 20th century.
France.
United States.
Frankreich
USA
United States Social conditions 1960-1980.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Centre canadien d'architecture. Centre d'étude
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275637
Call No.: BIB 209938
Status: Available