MCMH-EU COST Action Lecture Series
«Writing the History of Post-war Housing Complexes and Neighborhoods. A Take on Research Strategies and Methodologies»

SECOND TALK

«A COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The Recent Past and the Question of Sources in Writing the History of Post-war Housing in France.»
Sandra Parvu | ENSA Paris-Val de Seine/LAA_Laboratorie Architecture Anthropologie

Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2020 | 15:00 CET

Place: Microsoft Teams virtual class (link)

Sandra Parvu is an architect, a faculty member at the Paris-Val de Seine National Architecture School, and a research fellow at the Architecture and Anthropology Lab. Her book Grands ensembles en situation. Journal de bord de quatre chantiers (MetisPresses, 2011) explores the dialogue between political motivation and aesthetic research in the construction of postwar housing in France.

The talks are part of the lecture series “Writing the History of Post-war Housing Complexes and Neighborhoods. A Take on Research Strategies and Methodologies”, organized by Gaia Caramellino and Filippo De Pieri in the framework of the COST Action European-funded MCMH-EU CA18137, “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” and of the Phd Program in Architecture. History and Design (Politecnico di Torino).

Organizers:
Gaia Caramellino, DAStU_Politecnico di Milano
Filippo De Pieri, DAD_Politecnico di Torino