Pierre Vago (1910 – 2002) was a Hungarian Architect and designer. He studied at the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris.
Because of his housing projects, factories, the Central Banks of the French colonies of Tunisia and Algeria, and his controversial Basilica of St. Pius X in Lourdes, he received much attention in the postwar years. In 1957, he designed one of the new residential buildings in Berlin’s Hansaviertel.
He settled in France in 1928, where he was editor-in-chief on three issues of the review L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui. After World War 2, he actively revived the journal and set up his architecture office. In 1948, he left the journal and became a member of UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes). In Lourdes, he built the Basicila de Saint-Pi X (with architect Pierre Pinsard and engineer Eugéne Freysinnet).
His 1934 dining room with aluminium furniture in his all-metal house was installed at the 1935 Paris Salon d’Habitation.
Pierre Vago was also an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the German Bund Deutscher Architekten, and the American Institute of Architects.
A selection of his works
Sources
Byars, M., & Riley, T. (2004). The design encyclopedia. Laurence King Publishing. https://amzn.to/3ElmSlL