Born January 10, 1875 in Warsaw, the Polish kingdom, the son of Henry and Joanna (nee Mueller (Müller)). It was due to the Polish gentry. His grandfather, Jakub Guy, was the architect, has designed, among other buildings of the Polish Bank in Warsaw.
Henry Guy graduated from gymnasium Wojciech Gursky, he studied architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineers of Emperor Nicholas I in St. Petersburg, in 1898 he received a degree in engineering. Later continued his education in Paris, Vienna and Munich; He lived for some time in Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, etc.
After returning from abroad was launched in Warsaw. On the advice of senior colleagues in 1906 he moved to Minsk, where the meanwhile, lacked professional architects and it was easier to make a career as an independent author.
In 1906-1910 he headed the construction and installation works on the structure of the Church of Saints Simon and Helena in Minsk. Since 1909, a member of the Circle of Architects in Warsaw. At the beginning of December 1908 the delegation of the Circle took part in the First Congress of the delegates of the Polish architectural community in Krakow.
He participated in the work of two architectural studios before the First World War. One of them was in Warsaw and was first in joint ownership (with Derzhanovskim and Voitsekhovskii) and later into the domain Ai, on the street. Okulnik. The second, "Guy Sventitsky & Co», located in Minsk, in the house at the corner of Yukhnovich contemporary of Karl Marx and Engels. For a while he worked in Minsk and its surroundings, raised a lot of works of sacred and civil architecture. He participated in architectural competitions, where he received numerous distinctions and awards, including first prize in the competition for the design of the Bessarabian Market in Kiev; before that Guy had the experience of building a covered market in Warsaw. In 1914 he moved into Russia, the beginning of the First World War, met in Vladivostok. Where he organized a Polish colony and served as consul. In 1918 he left Russia. In 1919 he arrived in Minsk, but in the same year he left and returned to Warsaw. During the Polish-Soviet War was a member of the Polish Civil Guard. He held a lecture at the railway school. In the interwar period, he worked as an architect in the voivodship Pinsk.
| Произведение | Дата создания |
|---|---|
| House Sventsitsky project Henry Guy | Начало XX века |
| House number 19 on the street. Soviet in Minsk | - |
| Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Zhbivkuve, near Warsaw | - |
| Bessarabian market in Kiev | 1910—1912 |
| Yard Edward Raczynski burden around Debica | - |