Charles Ayrout

Charles Habib Ayrout (Arabic: شارل حبيب عيروط) 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.[1]

Family

His father, Habib Ayrout, was a Lebanese-Egyptian architect and contractor practicing in Cairo. After being educated in Paris as an engineer-architect, Habib Ayrout participated in the planning and construction of Heliopolis.[2]

Charles Ayrout had two brothers Henry Habib Ayrout and Max Ayrout who was also an architect practicing in Cairo.[2]

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 Abraham. This movement also included Antonine Selim Nahas and Raymond Antonious.[3]

Works in Cairo include
[4]

See also

References

  1. Mercedes Volait Le Caire-Alexandrie: Architectures Européennes 1850-1950 (co-edition IFAO/CEDEJ 2001)
  2. 1 2 Timothy Mitchell Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, University of California Press, 2002, pg. 332
  3. R. Stephen Sennott (editor), Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, Vol. 1, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004, pg. 202
  4. Cairo's Belle Époque architects 1900 - 1950, compiled by Samir Raafat

Further reading

Studies where Ayrout's work is discussed:

On the Belle Époque architecture in Cairo:

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