Georges Parcq

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Georges Parcq (also George Parcq ; * 1874 in Pontlevoy , Département Loir-et-Cher , † 1939 in Cairo ) was a French architect .

After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris , he settled in Cairo from 1910 and worked in Egypt. In Cairo, he designed the 1928 Stock Exchange on Cherifein Street and in 1913 the Sednaoui residential building on Midan Khazindar . Other works were the Mubarak library and the French embassy. In Alexandria the theater was built according to his plans.

  • French Embassy, ​​Cairo

  • Residential buildings Sednoui, Cairo

  • Theater, Alexandria

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre Jouguet: Georges Parcq (1874-1939) , in: Bulletin de l'Institut francais d'archéologie orientale, Volume 39, 1940, p. 24 and pp. 137-139.
  2. ↑ Jean-Paul Midant (ed.): Diccionario Akal de la Arquitectura del siglo XX , Salamanca 2004, ISBN 978-84-460-1747-9 , p. 698
  3. ^ Diane Singerman, Paul Amar: Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the new Globalized middle east , Cairo u. New York 2006, ISBN 978-977-424-928-0 , pp. 364, 365
  4. ^ Diane Singerman, Paul Amar: Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the new Globalized middle east , Cairo u. New York 2006, ISBN 978-977-424-928-0 , p. 354
  5. ^ Nancy Young Reynolds, Stanford University. Dept. of History (Ed.): Commodity communities: interweavings of market cultures, consumption practices, and social power in Egypt, 1907-1961 , Volume 1, Stanford University, 2003, p. 120
  6. ↑ Jim Fox: Paris on the Nile
  7. ↑ Cynthia Myntti: Paris Along the Nile: Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque 2000, American University in Cairo Press, ISBN 977-424-510-5 (page?)
personal data
SURNAME Parcq, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parcq, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontlevoy
DATE OF DEATH 1939
Place of death Cairo