Antonio Lasciac
Antonio Lasciac ( Slovenian : Anton Laščak ; born September 21, 1856 in Gorizia , † December 26, 1946 in Cairo ) was an Italian architect, engineer, poet and musician.
Apart from his hometown Gorizia, he worked as an architect in many cities in the Middle East , especially in Egypt.
Life
Lasciac studied architecture at a technical university in Vienna. From 1883 to 1888 he was involved in the reconstruction of the European center of Alexandria , which was bombed by the British Mediterranean fleet in July 1882 in the course of the Urabi uprising . After short work stays in Naples and Rome, he returned to Alexandria, where he was promoted as an architect by the Egyptian government, especially the Khedive family . Under Abbas Hilmi Pascha he was the official palace architect.
Works
- Building for the Karam brothers on rue de la Gare de Ramleh , Alexandria
- Primi building on Place des Consuls , Alexandria
- Building for the jew. Congregation on Rue Nabi Daniel , Alexandria
- Ramleh Railway Station , 1887, Alexandria
- Okalle Menasce shopping gallery, 1883–87, Alexandria
- Palazzina Aghion , 1887, Alexandria
- Villa Mazloum Pasha , 1898–1899, Alexandria
- St. Peter and Paul , 1911, Cairo
- Princess Fatma Al-Zahra 'Palace
- Bank Misr 1927, Alexandria
Exhibitions
- From Gorizia to the Ottoman Empire. Antonio Lasciac Architect . Pictures from Alinari Collections: is realized by Alinari? in collab. with the Friuli Venezia Giulia region . Gorizia, Museo Alinari, 2006.
Eponyms
In 2016 the asteroid (292459) Antoniolasciac was named after him.
swell
- Mercedes Volait: La communauté italienne et ses édiles. In: Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée. Année 1987, Volume 46, Numéro 46, pp. 137–156, full text online .
- Mohamed Ali Mohamed Khalil: The Italian architecture in Alexandria Egypt (Thesis submitted to University Kore of Enna to obtain Second level master degree in architecture restoration AA 2008-2009)
- Mohamed Fouad Awad (Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Alexandria): Italy in Alexandria: influences on the built environment . Alexandria preservation trust, Alexandria 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Gorizia to the Ottoman Empire - Architect Antonio Lasciac ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cf. Khalil, p. 34
- ↑ cf. Khalil, p. 35
- ↑ Alexandria World Heritage Site ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ MPC
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lasciac, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorizia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1946 |
| Place of death | Cairo |