Abstract
The aim of this conference is to examine the paradox between the role of engineers and technocrats in the Vichy regime, the discourse on modernizing France and the implementation of architectural and urban anti-modernism. The aim is to understand how the modernization carried out by technocrats failed to recast architectural and urban modernity. With the discourse of the restoration of the countryside against the city of the 1940 defeat, it was in fact the agrarian model of situated architecture and urbanism that triumphed.
