Edmond Brion (1885

Soissons Soissons () is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France. Located on the river Aisne, about northeast of Paris, it is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital o ...

- 1973) was a French architect active in Casablanca during the French Protectorate.

Biography

After

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and after having studying at the

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in Paris in the Paulin studio, Brion settled in Casablanca and worked with Auguste Cadet through the mid 1930s. While working with Cadet, Brion contributed to the project of the , now known as the ''Hubous'', and designed the Tasso Building (1931) as well as that of the . His two major works are the Bendahan Building (1935) located at

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in Derb Omar, and Casablanca's branch of the State Bank of Morocco (1937), featuring a large hall of marble, Art Deco metalwork, and exceptional reinterpreted ''zeliij''. He also designed the (1939) for the (COSUMA) and the colonial brothel quarter known as Bousbir. File:تفاصيل الزليج في مبني بنك المغرب في الدار البيضاء.jpg, Reinterpreted

zellige ''Zellij'' ( ar, الزليج, translit=zillīj; also spelled zillij or zellige) is a style of mosaic tilework made from individually hand-chiseled tile pieces. The pieces were typically of different colours and fitted together to form various pa ...

. File:تفاصيل السلالم في مبني بنك المغرب في الدار البيضاء.jpg, Stairs File:درج سلالم بنك المغرب.jpg, Staircase. File:الساعة في قاعة بنك المغرب.jpg, Clock. File:زليج في بناية بنك المغرب في الدار البيضاء.jpg, Reinterpreted

close-up. In 1930, he founded the Moroccan chapter of SADG ().

References

* 20th-century French architects 1885 births 1973 deaths French expatriates in Morocco {{France-architect-stub