Paroles de modernité. Pour une relecture culturelle de la station de sports d'hiver / An expression of modernity : For a new cultural interpretation of the modern winter resort

摘要

Abstract : The architecture and planning of the winter resorts built during the thirty years following the Second World War can no longer be understood from a purely economic viewpoint or in terms of ecological arguments. The structures and forms used in resorts such as Courchevel, which was a laboratory for such developments as early as 1 946, are the fruit of the imaginery and a culture developed between the two Second World Wars. They bear witness to a modern mythology deeply rooted in the socio-culural fabric of the 20th century. Beyond the expression of the functionalist doctrine, the forms reveal not only the « emancipated-egalitarian » democratic ideal but also a modern design inspired by the needs of health-seekers which, in the snowy winter alpine landscape, finds an ideal space in which it can flourish.