9. HOLLANDE
Following the initial three volumes of German work, Badovici and Morancé
again
returned to back issues of the review to assemble an extrait
dedicated to
Dutch architecture. Like the first Russian volume, it drew on two
separate fasci-
cules for its contents, combining them neatly into a new entity, ['Architecture Vivante
en Hollande: Legroup "De Stijl" et l'École
d'Amsterdam, published in early 1932.
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The
cover matches the design for the Russian and German
extraits, with green lettering
on a gray and white
background; the rear has no publisher's emblem. When the
second volume of the series
was issued the following year, a paper slip reading IE
serie was pasted onto the
upper right hand corner of the unsold copies (fig. 9.1,
plate 13).
Inside, a new signature at the front indicates the new title in full, followed
by
the three articlesfrom the Autumn 1925 fascicule, running twenty
pages. Two
articles from the Summer 1926 fascicule follow, and since
the Spring issue of
that year had run twenty pages, there was no need for
renumbering. The second
article from the Summer issue, an abridged version of Adolf
Loos's Ornamente
et crime, is kept despite its tangential
subject matter, perhaps only to save the
effort of reprinting its signature. The
final two pages of this signature, which
contained the table of contents for the combined Spring and Summer
fascicules,
have been excised, also suggesting that much of the contents of the
extrait were
not reprinted, but reused from surplus review
issues. A new fourépage signature,
unpaginated, with a revised table of contents, is
added in its place. In the copy
held at the Museum of Modern Art Library, the
original
l'Architecture Vivante
front matter, and the
sommaire and its advertisements as well, are also present.
The
plates are numbered 1–50, and dated with their respective fascicules, with
no need
for revision.
In the Spring of 1933, a full issue of the review was dedicated to Dutch
ar-
chitecture, and it appeared as an extrait the same
year.
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The cover is identical
to
the first volume, with a paper slip reading 2E
SéRIE pasted to the lower right
corner (fig. 9.3). The new
front matter also identifies this as the deuxième série
(the
first volume does not state première série) on the title
page. No other subtitle exists,
although in later advertisements it appears as Les architectes formalistes. The text
and plates follow the
original numbering sequence, and, at least in the sole copy
I was able to see, no
table of contents was supplied.
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A later version of the series exists, with covers matching the typography of
the
later Allemagne series, this time printed in green, but similarly printed on
the
reverse sides of unused l'Architecture Vivante portfolio
covers. Both copies I have
located of the first volume are comprised solely of
material from the Summer
1926 review, including its sommaire; it appears tohave been sold this way, lacking
the Autumn
1925 material (fig. 9.2). A copy of the second volume is at Avery
Li-
brary: the contents match the original review, with the l'Architecture Vivantefront
matter, and no table of contents (fig. 9.4).
