Alexandre Vallaury
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
- Short CV (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Kreiser: The Ottoman State 1300-1922 . Beck, Munich 2008, p. 75.
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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 |