Alexandre Vallaury

Décugis House, Beyoğlu

Alexandre Vallaury (1850–1921[1]) was a French-Ottoman architect who established architectural education in the Ottoman Empire at the School of Fine Arts in Constantinople. Nicknamed "architect of the city" (Ottoman Turkish: Mimar-ı Şehir) by Osman Hamdi Bey, Vallaury, alongside his collaborator and palace architect Raimondo D'Aronco, was a leading practitioner of Orientalist eclecticism.[2]

  1. ^ Laegreid, Sissel; Skorgen, Torgeir; Holm, Helge Vidar (2012-10-31). The Borders of Europe: Hegemony, Aesthetics and Border Poetics. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISBN 978-87-7124-734-3.
  2. ^ Kula Say, Seda. "Alexander Vallaury's Architecture: an Overview". Levantine Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2023.