HECTOR GUIMARD

FRENCH ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER

BORN:
 10 March 1867 - Lyons, France
MOVEMENTS AND STYLES: Art
PRESENTED BY:
Nouveau, Modern Architecture
Hector Guimard believed in the
unique.

Insert or Drag & Drop your photo here

“I love architecture, because in its
essence, in its structure, in its function, and
in all of its manifestations, it contains
within itself every one of the other arts,
without exception.” LIFE EVENTS AND
-Hector Guimard WORKS

NAME OR LOGO 2
○ Hector Guimard was an architect, who is widely
considered today to be the most prominent
representative of the French Art Nouveau
movement.
○ His work is easy to distinguish amongst other
practitioners of the Art Nouveau style.
○ He used plastic, abstracted and sometimes bizarre
vegetal and floral imagery in iron, glass, and
carved stone that is usually twisted and bent
into irregular and asymmetrical forms.
○ He studied decorative arts and architecture in Paris,
Guimard chose to begin independent practice in
1888.
○ Guimard also helped support himself by teaching.
In 1891, he became a professor of drawing for the
girls' section at his alma mater, the École des arts
décoratifs.

NAME OR LOGO 3
• The earliest constructed work of Guimard was the
cafe-restaurant Au Grand Neptune  in 1888.
• In 1895, after visiting the first Art Nouveau
building, Victor Horta’s “Hotel Tassel” in
Brussels, Guimard proceeded to a complete re-
evaluation of his artistic approach.
• The years between 1895 and 1905 were the most
productive for Guimard.
• Guimard designed and built schools, funerary
monuments, apartment houses, town houses,
vacation homes and country villas, a concert hall,
train stations, ceramics factories, artist studios, and
exposition pavilions

NAME OR LOGO 4
• From 1894 to 1898, Guimard made radical
changes to the style of Gothic
architecture which he had planned for Castel
Beranger
• In 1898, he designed the Castel Béranger
which displays a tension between a medieval
sense of geometrical volume, and the organic.

• From 1898 to 1905 he designed and created

the station entrances of Paris Metro. 

• Guimard’s amazing metal Art Nouveau

designs (c.1899-1901), with their flowing
lines and floral shapes, shocked Parisians.

• From 1909 to 1912, he designed a luxury

About Us
residence known today as Hotel Guimard. 

NAME OR LOGO 5
• Guimard designed most of the interior objects and
fixtures himself as well as a number of unique
items of furniture, which were considered to be
integral parts of the structure.

• Other notable works of architecture by Guimard

include : École du Sacré Coeur (Sacred Heart
School), Humbert de Romans auditorium (1902;
destroyed), with its metal framework roof; Coilliot ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES:
house (1898); La Bluette (1898); Castel
Henriette (1899); Nozal Hotel (1905); and Castel • Asymmetrical shapes
d’Orgeval (1905), Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue, • Extensive use of arches and
Paris(1913 ) curves
• Curved glass
• Curving, plant like
embellishments
• Mosaics
• Stained Glass
6
• Japanese Motifs
MAJOR ARTWORKS

École du Sacré Coeur (Sacred Castel Beranger, Paris Humbert de Romans Concert
Heart School), Paris Hall and School, Paris

1895 1895-98 1897-1901; destroyed 1905

NAME OR LOGO 7
 Entrances for the Castel Henriette, Sèvres, Hotel Guimard
Paris Métropolitain France

1899-1900 1899; destroyed 1969 1909-12

NAME OR LOGO
8
ARCHITECT : Hector Guimard
LOCATION : Paris, France
BUILDING TYPE :Apartment Complex
STYLE :Art Nouveau
YEAR OF COMPLETION :1898

Castel
• The Castel Béranger wasBeranger
also one of the first
Art Nouveau buildings to appear outside of
Belguim.

• They say that you can see the Art Nouveau

on everything in this design.

• The structure is embellished with brick,

stone, iron and ceramics.

• The building was a “gesamtkunstwerk,” a

total work of art. CASTEL BERANGER
1895-98
NAME OR LOGO 9
FLOOR PLAN
• Overall plan is asymmetrical and
geometrical plan.
• The ground floor plan demonstrates
Guimard’s approach to applying Art
Nouveau concepts in the plan.
• Each apartment is designed differently

NAME OR LOGO 10
ELEVATIONS
The elevation also shows that that building is completely asymmetrical.

The structure is embellished by materials like

brick, stone, iron and ceramics.

FRONT ELEVATION
NAME OR LOGO 11
 Brick masonry arches integrated with
rubble masonry in stone.
RARE ELEVATION
NAME OR LOGO 12
FAÇADE DETAILS

NAME OR LOGO 13
ART NOVEAU ELEMENTS 3

1
Stenciled ceiling with Curvy
whiplash lines.

Cast iron retaining bars forming an

arch show patterns from Nature.

Molded Terracotta Tiles

Curvilinear lines incorporated
even in elements such as
Arch resting on two Stone columns balustrades and door handles

Asymmetrical wrought iron gate

showing curvy and whiplash lines

2 NAME OR LOGO 14
 Hippocampi or mask
like figures on the
railing

Curvilinear wrought iron

grills on windows
Brick and stone texture on
exteriors with cast iron Stained glass windows
pastel green window frames
again with curvaceous lines.

NAME OR LOGO 15
• Guimard designed 3 types of
entrance.
• Built in cast iron, they make heavy
reference to the symbolism of
plants. METRO ENTRANCES
• 141 entrances were constructed 1900-1912
between 1900 and 1912, of which
86 still exist.

16
 METRO ENTRANCES

OPEN TYPE COVERED TYPE ENCLOSED TYPE

NAME OR LOGO 17
• The open type entrance
features stem like posts holding
red shade lamps which seem
like tulips
• The railing present in the open
and covered types depict a
shield.
FEATURES

NAME OR LOGO 18
Glass covering on covered type Glass covering on closed type

NAME OR LOGO 19
ARCHITECT : Hector Guimard
LOCATION : Paris, France
BUILDING TYPE :Residential
STYLE :Art Nouveau
YEAR OF COMPLETION :1912

HOTEL GUIMARD
(1909-1912)

NAME OR LOGO 20
FEATURES

• Hotel Guimard was built as house for him and his

wife. It was not only a house, but also studio and a
place to practice both their arts.
• The ground-floor and top-floor windows on the main
façade are symmetrical.
• Guimard designed most of the interior objects and
fixtures himself as well as a number of unique items of
furniture.
• Constructed on a narrow, triangular plot, its exterior
PLAN
load-bearing walls were unable to support any great
weight.
• Guimard created a wide range of decorative designs
in stained glass, ceramic panels, wrought iron,
wallpaper and other materials.

NAME OR LOGO 21
EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR DETAILS

NAME OR LOGO 22
DECLINE OF HECTOR GUIMARD (1867-1942)

• In 1928, Guimard built his last known work, the

apartments on Rue Greuze, in Paris.
• Guimard fled to New York in 1938 and when he died there
in 1942 – the general public had erased him from memory.
• Many of Guimard's buildings were destroyed after his
death, but he started to be rediscovered in the 1960s.
• Most of Guimard's buildings remain inaccessible to the
public and he has no museum devoted to him.

NAME OR LOGO 23
 ACKNOWLEGEMENT

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY SUBJECT TUTOR AR. PRACHI RAI KHANAL FOR PROVIDING US A
WONDERFUL OPPURTUNITY AND FOR THEIR GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT.

NAME OR LOGO
○ https://m.theartstory.org/artist/guimard-
hector/
○ https://www.britannica.com/biography/H
ector-Guimard
○ https://www.moma.org/artists/2407

○ http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/architec
ture/hector-guimard.htm
○ https://www.archdaily.com/870687/ad-cl
assics-paris-metro-entrance-hector-guim
ard
○ https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en
/paris-insolite/le-castel-beranger-art-nou
veau-paris
○ http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings
/Hotel_Guimard.html REFRENCES

NAME OR LOGO 25
Thank
You!