Dr. Andreas Papadakis - Hector Guimard - Architectural Monograph - 1978

Hector Guimard - Architectural Monograph

Contents see photo 4.

Lots of illustrations of designs for buildings and for the Paris metro.

Excellent condition.

Beautiful document from a period.

Hector Guimard (Lyon, March 10, 1867 – New York, May 20, 1942) was a French architect who is regarded as the leading representative of Art Nouveau in France. He had his own role within Art Nouveau, but he had no followers, left no school behind, and for a long time was therefore considered a subordinate within the movement. The fact that he had no followers stood in contrast to the great abundance of his architectural and decorative work.

Guimard discovered the theories of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from 1863 during his architectural studies, which laid the basis for Art Nouveau. Guimard’s conversion to the style itself happened rather suddenly. It occurred during a trip to Brussels, where he visited Victor Horta’s Hotel Tassel. The characteristic work from this period, Castel Béranger of 1898, designed by Guimard, illustrates this moment of transition when two styles met: the medieval-inspired geometric volumes of the rough construction were covered with the organic line imported from Belgium, the