| Xavier Arsène-Henry | |
| Birth Date: | 10 May 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Bordeaux, Gironde, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, Île-de-France, France |
| Occupation: | Architect, urban planner |
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.
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 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]
He designed the Tour Chartis, also known as the Tour AIG, in Courbevoie in 1967.[5] A year later, in 1968, he designed the Centrale à béton in Ivry-sur-Seine.[6] That same year, he designed the masterplans of on the outskirts of his hometown of Bordeaux.[7]
He designed, 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 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]