Weixin Zhou, “Designing Reconstruction: Architecture, French Society and the Working Class, 1945-1967”

In this talk, Weixin Zhou (UNC, Chapel Hill) will discuss a chapter of her dissertation, Designing Reconstruction: Architecture, French Society and the Working Class, 1945-1967. The chapter will discuss the housing policies of the newly established Ministry of Reconstruction and Urban Planning and some of its experimental housing projects after WWII. This talk is sponsored by the Triangle French History & Culture Seminar.