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As publisher of the influential magazine, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Today's Architecture) Pierre Vago became an internationally important architecture critic. In 1948, Pierre Vago founded the International Union of Architects (UIA), and also served as its General Secretary for many years. His goal was to unite all the architects of the world in an umbrella organization of all the national architects associations. In 2005, the UIA is recognized in 95 countries and thus represents ca. 1.5 million architects. Under the direction of the UIA, East and West German architects were brought together at the end of the 1950s. Vago was a proponent of Franco-German reconciliation politics.
The International Architecture Symposium "Mensch und Raum" (Man and Space) at the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) in 1984 received international attention. Pierre Vago participated, and among the other participants were: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, Bruno Zevi, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Paolo Soleri, Ernst Gisel, Ionel Schein.
Pierre Vago was an honorary member, for example, of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the German Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
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