Charles Ayrout
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Charles Habib Ayrout was an architect practicing in Cairo
and is considered as one of that city's Belle Epoque
/Art Déco
(1920–1940) architects for his landmark buildings and villas.
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Charles Ayrout had two brothers Henry Habib Ayrout
and Max Ayrout who was also an architect practicing in Cairo.
. This movement also included Antonine Selim Nahas and Raymond Antonious.
Works in Cairo include:
On the Belle Époque
architecture in Cairo:
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
and is considered as one of that city's Belle Epoque
Belle Époque
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque was a period in European social history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I. Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic and the German Empire, it was a period characterised by optimism and new technological and medical...
/Art Déco
Art Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
(1920–1940) architects for his landmark buildings and villas.
Family
His father, Habib Ayrout, was a Syrio-Lebanese architect and contractor practicing in Cairo. After being educated in Paris as an engineer-architect, Habib Ayrout participated in the planning and construction of HeliopolisHeliopolis (Cairo Suburb)
Modern Heliopolis is a district in Cairo, Egypt. The city was established in 1905 by the Heliopolis Oasis Company, headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain, as well as Boghos Nubar, son of the Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha.-History:The Baron Empain, a well known...
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Charles Ayrout had two brothers Henry Habib Ayrout
Henry Habib Ayrout
Henry Habib Ayrout, S.J. was a jesuite priest in Egypt.His father Habib Ayrout was a Syrio-Lebanese architect practicing in Cairo, Egypt. After being educated in Paris as an engineer-architect, he participated in the planning and construction of Heliopolis...
and Max Ayrout who was also an architect practicing in Cairo.
Style
Ayrout was part of a movement of French educated Syrio-Lebanese Egyptian architects, who were strongly influenced by the French 'modern classicism' of Michel Poux-Spitz and Pol AbrahamPol Abraham
Pol Abraham was a French architect. He was born in Nantes, France .He graduated in 1920 from the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then followed a course in the Ecole du Louvre from 1921 to 1924...
. This movement also included Antonine Selim Nahas and Raymond Antonious.
Works in Cairo include:
- ?? Bldg, 26 July/Hassan Sabri, ZamalekZamalekZamalek Sporting Club , is an Egyptian sporting club based in Meet Okba, Giza, Egypt that plays in the Egyptian Premier League....
- ?? Bldg, Bab al-Louk
- Ayrout Bldg, Cherif Pasha Street
- Bldg Shawarby Street
- Ayrout Villa, Zamalek
- Mosseri Building (now Mofti) on Shagaret Al Durr St., Zamalek
- Bishara Bldg, Nile Avenue
- Halim Doss Bldg, Midan Shafakhana
- Ibrahimieh Secondary School, Garden CityGarden City (Cairo)Garden City is an affluent district on the eastern Nile shore in Cairo, Egypt. It is between the Nile and Downtown Cairo, just south of Tahrir Square off Qasr al-Ayn Street....
- Kahil Bldg, Kantaret al-Dikka
- Bldg Gamal el Dine Abou El Mahassen, Garden City (1951)
- Villa Valadji, HeliopolisHeliopolis (Cairo Suburb)Modern Heliopolis is a district in Cairo, Egypt. The city was established in 1905 by the Heliopolis Oasis Company, headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain, as well as Boghos Nubar, son of the Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha.-History:The Baron Empain, a well known...
Further reading
Studies where Ayrout's work is discussed:- L’identification d’un ensemble urbain du XXème siècle en Egypte: Héliopolis, Le Caire. by Mercedes Volait and Claudine Piaton.
- L'inscription du discours occidental dans l'architecture et l'urbanisme orientaux by M Zakarya.
- Jaroslaw Dobrowolski and Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun, American University in Cairo Press, 2006.
- Le rêve fou d’un baron belge by Nabila Massrali and Amira Doss. Al-Ahram Hebdo, 27 April 2005, Issue No. 555.
- "A Change in Looking" (on BauhausBauhaus', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
style) by Sonali Pahwa. Al-Ahram Weekly, 22–28 April 2004, Issue No. 687.
On the Belle Époque
Belle Époque
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque was a period in European social history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I. Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic and the German Empire, it was a period characterised by optimism and new technological and medical...
architecture in Cairo:
- Cynthia Myntti, Paris Along the Nile: Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque, American University in Cairo Press, 2003.
- Trevor Mostyn, Egypt's Belle Epoque: Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2006.
- A list of Cairo's Belle Époque architects 1900 - 1950, compiled by Samir Raafat.