Obituary: Pierre Vago International architects' union founder

The Independent - London | April 24, 2002| | Copyright

PIERRE VAGO was the founding father of the International Union of Architects and founder Editor-in- Chief of the architectural journal L'Architecture d'Aujourd-hui.

He was born in Budapest in 1910, but soon moved with his family to Rome. His architect father, Joseph Vago, won the competition for the League of Nations in Geneva, after Le Corbusier had been disqualified. His mother was the singer Ghita Lenart. Vago learned Italian and German, and in 1928, when he moved to Paris, French. This prepared him for the international role he was to play in architecture - first through L'AA and then ...

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