ABSTRACT
This book projected a methodological spotlight on children as privileged subjects of postwar architecture for the purpose of revising design-centered accounts that organized the period in terms of style, authorship, or the primacy of the avant-garde. As a result, it highlighted the role of architecture as an apparatus of govermentality, and uncovered an alternative practice of functionalism which was sensuous, varied, and participatory. Conversely, it used the material culture of childhood environments as documents of social history, to identify the centrality of children to the formation of the welfare state and its model of citizenship.
