“Hector Guimard’s Visions of Eternal Peace.” In 113th Annual Meeting Proceedings (Washington: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2025), 274-82.

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French architect Hector Guimard is famous for being a pioneer of Art Nouveau. Few people know, however, that he played a key role during World War I promoting the concept of liberal internationalism. His prominent efforts in this arena helped to pave the way for the League of Nations, antecedent to the United Nations. This paper challenges the reigning assumption that Guimard’s political activism had no direct relevance to his subsequent design work. In actuality, his wartime lobbying for an international “Peace-State” explored ideas that also underpinned his designs for mass-produced housing a few years later. 









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“Hector Guimard’s Visions of Eternal Peace.” In 113th Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2025.  

 

“The U.S. Movement for Mass-Produced Concrete Housing, 1900 to 1924.” Construction History, 2024.                                                                                                        

“Huts, Houses, and the Industrial Militarization of France.” In States of Emergency, 2022.                                                                                                    

“French Mass-Produced Housing in the Crucible of World War I.” On platformspace.net, 2022.                                                                                                

“Notre-Dame du Raincy and the Great War.” JSAH, 2019.


“Bricolage de pointe : Constructions expérimentales dans un contexte étranger pendant la Grande Guerre.” In Construire, 2019.


“The Rough Concrete Surfaces of Perret’s Notre-Dame du Raincy.” In Still Life, 2016.
 
 
“The Super-Urban House.” In The Building, 2016.


“Minimum Structure: Musmeci and the Semiotics of Statics.” In GSD Platform 4, 2011.






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