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10. TONY GARNIER

Although most bibliographies date the publication of l'Oeuvre de Tony Garnier
as 1938, Valdras confirms that the correct date is 1932. 63 The 1938 date seems to originate with Giulia Veronesi's small monograph on Garnier produced shortly
after the architect's death in 1948 - a book plagued with errors of identity and
dating - and is then repeated in almost all subsequent works on Garnier. 64 The
material was first published in the Spring/Summer 1932 issue of l'Architecture
Vivante, a double issue with the combined dates on the fascicule cover. The con-

tents derive largely from two sources: Une cité industrielle, from 1917, and Les
grands travaux de la ville de Lyon, from the early 1920s. The reproduction of im-
ages from the first edition of Une cité industrielle suggests that its second edition,
also published in 1932, was not yet in production. For the latter publication,
the images were reproduced again from the original drawings, often cropped
to include a slightly larger area of the originals than in the first edition. This is
most noticeable in plate 32, an interior perspective of La grand piscine, where a
significant expansion of the view occurs in the second edition; the image shown
by Morancé (on plate 14) is clearly from the earlier printing. It is possible that
Badovici's renewed interest in Garnier led the publisher Charles Massin to bring
out the second edition.

As a double issue of the review, very little work was required to prepare the
extrait: a new signature at the front replacing the l'Architecture Vivante title with
that of the extrait, and a new portfolio cover. The latter was based graphically
on the fourth volume of the Le Corbusier and P. Jeanneret series. Although volume
five of that series, with a different cover layout, had appeared in 1931, the back-
ground urban plan of the earlier cover must have seemed a more appropriate
model for the Garnier cover. It shows the Quartier des écoles, based on plate 34 of
Une cité industrielle and reproduced by Badovici on page 16 (fig. 10.1, plate 14).
The rear cover includes the EAM bull's-eye emblem, as does the original fascicule
cover, the first time this device appears in its final form on both the review and
its extrait.