Charles Habib Ayrout (

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: شارل حبيب عيروط-) (1905 Cairo, Egypt - 1965 Cairo, Egypt) was an architect practising in

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and is considered one of that city's ' pioneer' generation, as well as a

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(1920–1940) architect for his landmark buildings and villas,. and was one of the most active builders in its Heliopolis district. He summarised his approach in 1932 as to “bring to Heliopolis the principles of modern architecture, but not of avantgarde architecture."

Family

His father, Habib Ayrout, was a Syro-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.

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''Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity'', University of California Press, 2002, pg. 332 Charles Ayrout had two brothers, the Jesuit priest

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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

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. This movement also included Antonine Selim Nahas and Raymond Antonious. However, he stressed on learning the principles of Modrnist architecture, and reapplying them in Egypt as opposed to copying them. Works in Cairo include :Cairo's Belle Époque architects 1900 - 1950
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*25 Mansour Street, 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 City *Kahil Bldg, Kantaret al-Dikka *Bldg Gamal el Dine Abou El Mahassen, Garden City (1951) *Villa Valadji, Heliopolis

References

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.

by Nabila Massrali and Amira Doss. ''Al-Ahram Hebdo'', 27 April 2005, Issue No. 555.

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style) by Sonali Pahwa. ''Al-Ahram Weekly'', 22–28 April 2004, Issue No. 687. On the

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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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayrout, Charles Egyptian architects Egyptian people of Lebanese descent Year of death missing Year of birth missing Levantine-Egyptians Belle Époque

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