André Sive

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André Sive (* 1899 as Andras Szivessy in Budapest ; † 1958 in Morainvilliers ) was a Hungarian - French architect .

Life

Sive was born in Hungary in 1899 . From 1924 Sive studied architecture in Vienna , Berlin and finally in Paris with Auguste Perret . Between 1924 and 1929 he often worked with Ernő Goldfinger , creating furniture and home furnishings. From 1931 to 1933 Sive then worked with Pierre Forestier . The two young architects won an architecture competition to build the Cité sanitaire de Clairevivre and, in 25 months, built a complete small town with 180 single-family houses, two apartment buildings, a hospital, a hotel with a café, restaurants, a cinema, shops, a school, a car Workshop and a heating plant arise. From around 1935 Sive worked in the office of Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods . Here he met Jean Prouvé , who had a lasting influence on him. In 1939 the two worked together on several projects. The Second World War ended the fruitful collaboration. Sive fled into exile in Algeria in 1940 and did not return to France until 1945 .

Shortly before the end of the war, Sive was appointed head of department in the architectural service of the Provisional Government of the French Republic . In 1945 he changed his name to André Sive. In 1946 and 1947, the French military governor of the Saarland, Gilbert Grandval , appointed him deputy urban planning director of the Saarland military government. Together with Marcel Roux , he drafted a regional plan for the reconstruction of the Saarland. Two years earlier, he had declined to lead the reconstruction in favor of a research trip with Le Corbusier to the United States . In 1947 he was editor of the publication Urbanisme en Sarre together with the French urbanists on the Saar and wrote regularly for L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui , where he sat on the editorial committee.

In 1948 he returned to Paris and worked in his own studio. Eugène Claudius-Petit , Minister for Reconstruction and Urbanism (MRU), appointed him to his ministry as an architect. Sive implemented several MRU building projects, mostly in collaboration with other architects, including the reconstruction of the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer and social housing projects in Meudon , Aubervilliers and Firminy and Bar-le-Duc . In 1956 he was a member of the jury for the planning of the city of Brasília .

Memberships

Sive was a member of L'Ordre des Architectes , the Union des Artistes Modernes and director of the Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales .

Awards

Publications

  • with Marcel Roux: Densités urbaines . In: L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui , No. 1, 1946, p. 14
  • Urbanisme en Sarre . Saarbrücken, 1947
  • Urban development in Saarland . Saarbrücken, 1947
  • with Marcel Roux: Housing density in urban development. Theoretical study of the different housing densities . Under construction. Magazine (for) living, working, relaxing. 1st year 1947/48, issue 1, pp. 33-36

literature

  • André Vigneau: André Sive . In: L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui , 29th vol., No. 80, 1958, p. V
  • Hans P. Koellmann: Obituary for André Sive . In: Baukunst und Werkform , 1959, pp. 156–158
  • Joseph Abram: Sive, André . In: Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art . Volume 28, London, New York, 1996, p. 809

Works

  • 1931–1933 Cité sanitaire de Clairevivre in Salagnac with Pierre Forestier
  • 1937 Villa Blondeau in Algiers with Pierre Forestier
  • 1935–1939 Maison du Peuple in Clichy
  • 1946–1948 residential building in Hartsdale , USA, with Marcel Loeb
  • 1946–1947 regional plan for the Saarland, with Marcel Roux (not implemented)
  • 1947 Neue Bremm Memorial in Saarbrücken
  • 1950–1953 Sans Souci settlement in Meudon , with Jean Prouvé and Henri Prouvé
  • 1953 Social housing in Aubervilliers , with Jean Kling and Claude Raccoursier
  • 1953 Social housing in Val Fleury and Cité des Blancs in Meudon, with Jean Kling
  • approx. 1954 Four high-rise residential buildings in Boulogne-sur-Mer , Quai Gambetta, with five other architects
  • 1954–1965 residential town Firminy-Vert , with Marcel Roux, Charles Delfante and P. Tyr
  • 1957 Alphonse-Laveran Military Hospital in Marseille , with Pierre Forestier
  • 1958 Laboratory in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) , with R.-A. Coulon

Web links

  • Sive in the Saarland artist lexicon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nigel Warburton: Ernö Goldfinger. The Life of an Architect . Routledge, London, 2004 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Sive, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szivessy, Andras (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-French architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 1958
Place of death Morainvilliers