Alexandre Vallaury

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Alexandre Vallaury: Ottoman Bank Building , 1890
Alexandre Vallaury: Building of the Dette Publique Ottoman
Alexandre Vallaury: Pera Palas

Alexandre Vallaury (born March 1850 in Istanbul ; † May 6, 1921 ibid) was a French architect who worked in the Ottoman Empire .

Valaury belonged to the wealthy "Frankish", that is, a mixture of French and Italian speaking minority. His father Francesco Vallaury was a confectioner and purveyor to the court of the Sublime Porte . Alexandre Vallaury trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris from 1869 to 1878 and returned to his homeland in 1880, where he entered into a collaboration with the Turkish archaeologist and founder of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Osman Hamdi Bey .

Vallaury's Levantine oeuvre includes numerous buildings in the style of a slightly orientalizing historicism , especially in the Galata district , which at the time was mainly inhabited by Europeans . His most famous work is probably the Hotel Pera Palas . Vallaury also worked for 25 years as a professor and founder of the architecture department at the École des Beaux-Arts of Istanbul (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi, now called Mimar Sinan University ), founded in 1882 . He received numerous orders and awards, including membership of the French Legion of Honor (1896).

Major works

  • 1880: Café Lebon (since 1940 Café Marquise - Markiz Pastanesi ) - Beyoğlu , Istanbul
  • 1881: Décugis House (now Galata Antique Hotel) - Şişhane, Istanbul
  • 1881–1891: Pera Palas (1881–1891) - Şişhane, Istanbul
  • 1887: Hidayet Mosque (1887) - Eminönü , Istanbul
  • 1890: General Directorate of the Ottoman Bank - Karaköy , Istanbul
  • 1891–1907: Several components of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum - Sultan Ahmet, Istanbul
  • 1893–1902: Haydarpasa Lyceum (currently the seat of the Law Faculty of Marmara University ) - Haydarpaşa, Istanbul
  • 1882: Building of the Cercle d'Orient (Serkldorian)
  • 1896: Union Française - Şişhane building, Istanbul
  • 1897: Building of the Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane (today İstanbul Lisesi ) - Cağaloğlu , Istanbul
  • 1898: Greek orphanage on the Prince Island of Büyükada , second largest wooden building in the world
  • 1903–1904: Osman Reis Mosque - Sariyer, Istanbul

literature

  • Klaus Kreiser: The Ottoman State 1300 - 1921 , Munich 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Kreiser: The Ottoman State 1300-1922 . Beck, Munich 2008, p. 75.
personal data
SURNAME Vallaury, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect in the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH March 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1921
Place of death Istanbul