Jean Badovici

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Jean Badovici (* 1893 ; † 1956 ) was a Romanian-born French architect and architecture critic.

life and work

Jean Badovici completed his architecture studies in Paris after the First World War . There he continued to live and from 1923 published the important French magazine for avant-garde architecture L'Architecture Vivante . He designed two houses for his own use: in Vézelay (1924) and in Paris near the Pont de Sèvres (1934). In Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, he supported his then partner Eileen Gray in realizing an important residential building design of international modernism, the E.1027 (1926–1929).

After the Second World War he worked at the Bâtiments civils et palais nationaux et des monuments historiques . This authority directed the reconstruction in France after the destruction of the Second World War. There he was assistant to the chief architect Robert Édouard Camelot (1903-1992).

L'Architecture Vivante

Jean Badovici is less known as an executive architect. His reputation is based on his work as editor and author of architecture criticism of the periodical L'Architecture Vivante.

In 1923 he convinced the publisher Albert Morancé to publish a new magazine called L'Architecture Vivante . A total of 21 issues were published over the following decade. L'Architecture Vivante quickly became an influential mouthpiece for international avant-garde architecture (Bauhaus, Constructivism, de Stijl, Le Corbusier). Le Corbusier, for example, influenced the content through his acquaintance with Badovici after his friend Amédée Ozenfant's L'Esprit Nouveau magazine had ceased to appear. Jean Badovici had relationships with the Dutch magazine Wendingen as well as with the Cahiers d'Art (from 1926) of his friend Christian Zervos . In addition to the normal editions, booklets dedicated to just one architect were also edited, such as Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and, in late 1929, Eileen Gray and their house E-1027.

Re-editions L'Architecture Vivante

The edition of Eileen Gray's E.1027 was published as a re-edition:

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

The complete edition was also published as a re-edition:

  • Jean Badovici: L'Architecture Vivante. Da Capo Press, New York 1975.

Library presence L'Architecture Vivante

The periodical L'Architecture Vivante is held in various libraries, albeit often only in individual editions. ZDB -ID 243520-2 , here proof of ownership.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopedia.com: Badovici, Jean
  2. ^ Alfred Werner Maurer: 3 houses of the designer Eileen Gray on the Côte d'Azur Philologus-Verlag, Basel 2007.
  3. ↑ Pochoir.Wolfsonian.org: Jean Badovici (1893–1956)
  4. ↑ PDF at archiwebture.citechaillot.fr
  5. ↑ a b Ireland.Archiseek.com: Architects of Ireland - Eileen Gray (1879–1976) ( Memento of March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Eileen-Gray.de: E-1027
personal data
SURNAME Badovici, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian architect and architecture critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
DATE OF DEATH 1956