La France et l’architecture internationale à l’Exposition de 1925 perçues par Adolphe Dervaux et ses contemporains
On the occasion of the 1925 exhibition, the architect and town-planner Adolphe Dervaux (1871-1945) published a book entitled L’Architecture étrangère à l’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de Paris, a study devoted to the pavilions built to house the representation...
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| Language: | fra |
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Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2025-04-01
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| Series: | In Situ |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/44295 |
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| Summary: | On the occasion of the 1925 exhibition, the architect and town-planner Adolphe Dervaux (1871-1945) published a book entitled L’Architecture étrangère à l’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de Paris, a study devoted to the pavilions built to house the representations of the different foreign countries invited to the event. The collection of photographs and brief texts is apparently of a descriptive nature, but Dervaux is in fact undertaking an exercise in architectural criticism, evaluating the pavilions in terms of the exhibition’s keyword, modernity. This article examines Dervaux’s judgments and sets them against the realities of the strategies and intentions of the different countries concerned. Dervaux’s text is also analysed in the light of the views of other authors belonging to his intellectual milieu, that of a moderate and conciliatory criticism, a far cry from the avant-garde positions of the Modern movement. His descriptions of the foreign pavilions at the exhibition also give us a better appreciation of the architectural culture and issues of the period, in France. They contributed to consolidating the success of Art Deco. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7305 |