L'architecture Vivante

*L'architecture Vivante*
Editor-in-chief	Jean Badovici
Categories	Architecture magazine
Frequency	Quarterly
First issue	1923
Final issue	1934
Company	Albert Morancé
Country	France
Based in	Paris
Language	French

L'Architecture Vivante was a French language quarterly magazine for avant-garde architecture published in France from 1923 to 1932.

History and profile

L’Architecture Vivante was published quarterly^[1] between 1923^[2] and 1932. Jean Badovici, a Romanian architecture and critic, edited the magazine for two years from 1923 to 1925.^[3] He was an influential critic and mentor in France of international modern architecture, and he convinced the publisher, Albert Morancé, of the need for such a magazine.

L’Architecture Vivante devoted to modern architecture and design.^[3] The quarterly immediately became an influential advocate of the International style (Bauhaus, Constructivism, De Stijl).^[1]

Badovici's friend Le Corbusier, for instance, became one of the architects whose ideals were frequently discussed in the magazine. Badovici cultivated relations with other European avant-garde magazines such as Wendingen (Netherlands) and Cahiers d'Art (France), founded in 1926 by his friend Christian Zervos.

Each issue of L’Architecture Vivante routinely presented a number of architects and their works, but a few issues were devoted to a single designer (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and, in 1929, Eileen Gray and her home E-1027).^[4]^[5]

Reeditions L’Architecture Vivante

The issue concerning Eileen Gray / E.1027:

Eileen Gray, Jean Badovici: E. 1027: Maison en bord de mer. In L’Architecture Vivante. Reedition Éd. Imbernon, Marseille 2006, ISBN 2-9516396-5-1.

The complete edition:

L'Architecture vivante, Da Capo Press, New York, c 1975