Handymen, Hippies and Healing: Social Transformation through the DIY Movement (1940s to 1970s) in North America

<p class="p1">This paper explores the relation between the ‘DIY’ (‘do-it-yourself’) movement and ‘DIY architecture’, and the notion of social transformation, in examples of DIY manuals and discourse of North America drawn from the 1940s to the 1970s. The DIY movement emerged as a sig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cathy D Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2014-03-01
Series:Architectural Histories
Subjects:
DIY
Online Access:http://journal.eahn.org/articles/54