Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Apartment Building, rue Henri-Heine
Alternate Title:
Immeuble Guimard
Image View:
Frontal view of lower portion of main façade
Creator:
Hector Guimard (French architect, 1867-1942)
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:
18 Rue Henri Heine
Date:
1925 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Art Nouveau
Work Type 1:
apartment house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; brick; iron
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; Housing
Description:
After World War I Guimard found it difficult to associate himself with the new Rationalism, even though his housing projects were based on a standardized system of dry concrete block construction and prefabricated elements. The apartment block (1925) at 18 Rue Henri Heine, Paris, his best post-war work, became his own last home in Paris. He appears to have built nothing after 1929 and in 1939 he and his wife moved to New York. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart. com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Two
Identifier:
1A1-GH-A-A2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Apartment Building, rue Henri-Heine