Jean Badovici (6 January 1893 – 17 August 1956) was a French architect and architecture critic of Romanian origin, active in Paris.
[1] After World War II Badovici was involved in reconstructing and saving the architectural heritage of France [2] in a board called Bâtiments civils et palais nationaux et des monuments historiques.
He was an influential critic and mentor of international modern architecture in France since he began editing the magazine L'architecture Vivante in 1923.
Badovici cultivated relations to European avantgarde magazines like Wendingen (Netherlands) and Cahiers d’Art (France, founded in 1926) of his friend Christian Zervos.
Regularly each issue of L’Architecture Vivante presented a number of architects and their works but there were also some very few dealing with just one artist (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and in 1929 Eileen Gray and her home E-1027).