Paris Metro Entrances
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 | Paris Metro Entrances |
| Designer | Hector Guimard |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Date | 1899 to 1905 |
| Building Type | light rail rapid transit stations |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Art Nouveau |
| Street Address | place Saint-Michel |
| Notes | Graceful organic forms. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Paris_Metro_Entrances.html |
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"Constructed like the Crystal Palace out of interchangeable, prefabricated cast iron and glass parts, Guimard created his métro system in opposition to the ruling taste of French classical culture...Guimard's system flourished, emerging overnight like the manifestation of some organic force, its sinuous green cast-iron tentacles erupting from the subterranean labyrinth to support a variety of barriers, pergolas, maps, hooded light fittings and glazed canopies. These surrealistic 'dragonfly's wings'—to quote a contemporary critic—received a mixed, not to say chauvinistic, press, the verdigris colour of their iron supports being regarded as German rather than French. This imaginative attempt to render the Orphic myth in modern terms was to be complemented later by the astringent technical forms of the elevated section of the métro, built to the designs of the architect Jean Camille-Formigé and the engineer Louis Biette."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p106.
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William J.R. Curtis. Modern Architecture since 1890. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1987. exterior photo of front of entrance, f2.6, p26.
Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. mentioned, p106.— Available at Amazon.com
Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.
Kevin Matthews, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, August 1992. PCD.3189.1011.1916.003
Maurice Rheims. Hector Guimard. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. ISBN 0-8109-0973-1. LC 86-32232. NA1053.G8F4713 1987. section drawing, p96. front elevation drawing, p97. front elevation drawing, p89. lateral elevation drawing, p89. plan drawing showing half roof and half floor, p89.
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