Pierre Vago

Pierre Vago (born August 30, 1910 in Budapest ; † February 1, 2002 in Noisy-sur-École , Seine-et-Marne ), was a French architect and co-designer of Berlin's Hansaviertel. He became internationally known as editor-in-chief of l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui and general secretary of the Union Internationale des Architectes , of which he later became honorary president.

Life

Vago, who grew up in Rome, studied at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. With its social buildings, factories, the central banks of the French provinces of Tunisia and Algeria, but also the pilgrimage basilica of St. Pius X in Lourdes , it caused a sensation. Initially based on the classifying rationalism of Auguste Perret , Vago became one of the most important representatives of modern architecture in France in the post-war period.

As editor-in-chief of the influential journal l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (“The Architecture of Today”), Vago became a major international architecture critic. Vago founded the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) in 1948, of which he was Secretary General for many years. Its aim was to unite the architects of all countries in a union of their professional organizations. The UIA is represented in 95 countries in 2005 and thus represents around 1.5 million architects. During his “reign”, architects from the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany were also able to come into contact on a semi-official level. Vago was seen as a pioneer of the Franco-German friendship policy, in 1957 he took part in the International Building Exhibition in West Berlin's Hansaviertel .

The International Architecture Symposium “Man and Space” held at the Vienna University of Technology in 1984 attracted international attention, attended by Vago, for example, Justus Dahinden , Dennis Sharp , Bruno Zevi , Jorge Glusberg , Otto Kapfinger , Frei Otto , Paolo Soleri , Ernst Gisel and Ionel Schein u. a. participated.

Pierre Vago was an honorary member, for example, of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as well as a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Fonts

• l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, revue internationale d'architecture contemporaine. Paris 1971, ISSN  0003-8695 .
• With Gabriel Epstein , Klaus Müller-Rehm: Architecture experiments in Berlin and elsewhere. For Julius Posener. 1989, ISBN 3-924812-24-1 .
• L'UIA, 1948-1998. Epure 1998, ISBN 2-907687-58-1 .
• une vie intense. Aam 2000, ISBN 2-87143-110-8 .

Web links

• Pierre Vago. In: arch INFORM .
• to the École Spéciale d'Architecture: esa-paris.fr
• on the Academy of Arts, Berlin: adk.de
• Pierre Vago in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)