Background
Xavier Arsène-Henry was born on 10 May 1919 in Bordeaux, France.
Xavier Arsène-Henry was born on 10 May 1919 in Bordeaux, France.
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
He designed many tall residential buildings on the outskirts of French cities. 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 Président Wilson 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 American International Group, 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 Louisiana Rouvière, a neighbourhood on the northern outskirts of Marseille, in 1969.
Four years later, in 1973, he designed the offices of the Corsican subsidiary of Banque Nationale de Paris 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 died on 19 June 2009 in Paris.
