L’Architecture Vivante 1926 - Documents sur l'activité constructive dans tous les pays - Publiés sous la direction de Jean Badovici, Architecte
Paris: Albert Morancé, 1926. First edition. [50 plates, including 2 with original photographs]. Fine condition.
Scarce French publication documenting international avant-garde architecture of the 1920s, with architectural plans and photographic material.
Illustrated volume from the influential series L’Architecture Vivante, presenting contemporary international architecture through plates, plans, and photographic documentation. The publication assembles key works and theoretical positions of the mid-1920s, with particular emphasis on modernist and constructivist developments.
The plates include detailed architectural plans and high-quality photographic reproductions of major projects of the period, among them works associated with the Russian Constructivist movement, the Amsterdam School (Luthmann, De Klerk, Berlage), Raymond’s work in Tokyo, and Adolf Loos’s Ornement et Crime. Two plates contain original vintage photographs of buildings, likely issued with editorial annotations.
Contributors include Walter Gropius, A. Meyer, Antonin Raymond, Adolf Loos, H. P. Berlage, M. de Klerk, J. M. Luthmann, Arthur Korn, Erich Mendelsohn, A. Morancé, and V. Vesnine, reflecting the international scope of the series.
Edited by Jean Badovici, architect and critic, whose L’Architecture Vivante served as a central platform for the dissemination of modern architecture in interwar Europe.
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Price: €2,000.00