Laetitia Maison-Soulard is a researcher at the Heritage and Inventory service of Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region (France). After a Ph. D. in history of science, she developed the scientific and technical collections of the Musée des Confluences in Lyon. She is a specialist in industrial heritage and has recently published a book on the aerospace industry : L’industrie aérospatiale en Nouvelle-Aquitaine : Un siècle d’histoire et de Patrimoine (avec Vincent Frigant), Bordeaux : Le Festin, 2020. See also : “La conception de l’usine Dassault de Mérignac dans l’histoire architecturale aéronautique française, de l’entre-deux-guerres à la guerre froide” In Situ Revue des patrimoines 35 (2018) : Online since 12 September 2018.

For my co-author :

Stuart W.  Leslie teaches the history of science, technology, and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.  He is probably best known for his studies of Cold War science in the US and in the developing world, including The Cold War and American Science.  He has also published a number of recent articles on Southern California’s aerospace industry.

“Cold War Suburbs: Thinking the Unthinkable in Style” Southern California Quarterly 102, 1 (2020), 24-56.

 “The Beach Boys: Cold War Science with a California Vibe” in Sandra O’Grady Kaji (ed.)

Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions (MIT Press, 2019), 131-177.

“’Suburban Warriors’: The Blue-Collar and Blue-Sky Communities of Southern California’s

Aerospace Industry” (with Layne Karafantis) Journal of Planning History 18,1 (February 2019), 3-26.

“Secret Spaces: Southern California’s Aerospace ‘Think Factories” in Mathew Aitchison

(ed.) The Architecture of Industry: Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and

Planning (Ashgate, 2014): 59-85.

“Aerospaces: Southern California’s Architecture in a Cold War World” History and

Technology 29:4 (December 2013): 331-368.

“Spaces for the Space Age: William Pereira’s Aerospace Modernism” in Peter Westwick

(ed.) Blue-Sky Metropolis: Aerospace and Southern California (University of California

Press, 2012):127-158.