From the exhibition
Design for a Mass-Operational House
Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942 · 1920

French architect Hector Guimard's technical blueprint presents a modernist housing scheme emphasizing standardized construction and efficient spatial planning. The schematic drawings—cross-sections, detail views, and an isometric perspective—illustrate innovations in prefabrication and modular assembly, with notations detailing bearing walls, joinery, and structural systems. Guimard's exploration of mass housing reflects early twentieth-century efforts to address urban population growth through rational design principles. The document demonstrates how architects translated Art Nouveau's organic sensibility toward practical, reproducible building methods suited to industrial manufacture.
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