Xavier Arsène-Henry

Xavier Arsène-Henry was born on 10 May 1919 in Bordeaux, France.[1][2]

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 boulevard du Président-Wilson in Reims.[3] That same year, he designed three residential tall buildings in Reims: the Tour Berlioz, the Tour Bach, and the Tour Beethoven.[3] He designed similar residential tall buildings in Montereau-Fault-Yonne a year later, in 1961.[4][5]

He designed the Tour Chartis, also known as the Tour AIG, in Courbevoie in 1967.[6] A year later, in 1968, he designed the Centrale à béton in Ivry-sur-Seine.[7] That same year, he designed the masterplans of Bordeaux-Lac on the outskirts of his hometown of Bordeaux.[8]

He designed La Rouvière, a neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Marseille, in 1969.[3] Four years later, in 1973, he designed the offices of the Corsican subsidiary of BNP Paribas at 475 Avenue du Prado in Marseille.[3]

He designed two buildings in Puteaux: Le Galion in 1982 and Le Minerve in 1984.[3]

He was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[1] He was the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.[4]

He died on 19 June 2009 in Paris.[2]

• 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).