Xavier Arsène-Henry

Xavier Arsène-Henry studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with École des Beaux-Arts. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome, Commander of the National Order of Merit and Rome Prize.

• Name — Xavier Arsène-Henry • Born — 10 May 1919 • Birthplace — Bordeaux, Gironde, France • Died — 19 June 2009 • Place of death — Paris, Île-de-France, France • Occupation — Architect, urban planner

Xavier Arsène-Henry was born on 10 May 1919 in Bordeaux, France.

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 (Reims) in Reims. 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. He designed the Tour Chartis, also known as the Tour AIG, in Courbevoie in 1967. A year later, in 1968, he designed the Centrale à béton in Ivry-sur-Seine. That same year, he designed the masterplans of Bordeaux-Lac on the outskirts of his hometown of Bordeaux. He designed La Rouvière (Marseille), 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 Avenue du Prado 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.

He died on 19 June 2009 in Paris.

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The following is established of origins and background. Arsène-Henry died in 2009 at 14th arrondissement of Paris. It is also recorded that xavier Arsène-Henry is recorded at birth as Xavier Marie Arsène Henry. Born in 1919 at Bordeaux.