Xavier Arsène-Henry (10 May 1919 – 19 June 2009) was a French modernist architect and urban planner. He designed many tall residential buildings on the outskirts of French cities.
Early life Xavier Arsène-Henry was born on 10 May 1919 in Bordeaux, France.Xavier Arsène-Henry (1919-2009), Bibliothèque nationale de FranceXavier Arsène-Henry, Structurae
Career He was a proponent of modern architecture.
In 1960, he designed a church, Église Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, located at 1 Place Mozart on the in Reims.Architecte / Maître d'œuvre: Xavier Arsène-Henry That same year, he designed three residential tall buildings in Reims: the Tour Berlioz, the Tour Bach, and the Tour Beethoven. He designed similar residential tall buildings in Montereau-Fault-Yonne a year later, in 1961.Florian Urban, Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing, Routledge, 2013, p. 52
He designed the Tour Chartis, also known as the Tour AIG, in Courbevoie in 1967.Structurae: Tour Chartis A year later, in 1968, he designed the Centrale à béton in Ivry-sur-Seine.Structurae: Centrale à béton That same year, he designed the masterplans of on the outskirts of his hometown of Bordeaux.Bernard Gazeau, Cinquante ans pour créer un quartier, Sud-Ouest, 20 September 2009
He designed , a neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Marseille, in 1969. Four years later, in 1973, he designed the offices of the Corsican subsidiary of BNP Paribas at 475 in Marseille.
He designed two buildings in Puteaux: Le Galion in 1982 and Le Minerve in 1984.
He was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
Death He died on 19 June 2009 in Paris.
Bibliography La ville de l'an 2000 (revue Études, 1972). Notre ville, Mame, 1969 Rentrons, il se fait tard, le long voyage d'un architecte (1919-1998) (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999). J'allais oublier de vous dire... : suite du long voyage d'un architecte, 1998-2002 (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002). Arrêtons nous quelques instants, 3e étape du long voyage d'un architecte (2002-2006) (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006). Cap-Ferret : dessins et textes de Xavier Arsène-Henry : 50 ans de dessins (Elyte, 2008).
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