Georges Parcq

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Georges Parcq
Born1874
Died1939
Alma materÉcole des Beaux-Arts
OccupationArchitect
Years active1910 – 1939

Georges Parcq (1874-1939) was a French architect who worked in Cairo, Egypt from 1910 to 1939. Among his famous works are the Sednaoui Emporium department store [1] in Cairo, the Alexandria Opera House,[2] the Cairo Stock Exchange[3] and the Villa Minost from 1931 in Cairo.[4]

The Alexandria Opera House

References[edit]

  1. ^ Volait, Mercedes (1 March 2013). "The reclaiming of "Belle Époque" Architecture in Egypt (1989-2010): On the Power of Rhetorics in Heritage-Making". ABE Journal (3). doi:10.4000/abe.371. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. ^ Raafat, Samir. "GARDEN CITY: A Retrospective PART 5". egy.com. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  3. ^ Fahmi, Waelel; Sutton, Keith (1 January 2010). "Reclaiming Cairo's downtown district: Contesting the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Quarter". International Development Planning Review. 32 (2): 93–118. doi:10.3828/idpr.2010.01. ISSN 1474-6743.
  4. ^ "Parcq, Georges-Émile". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online. Retrieved 19 June 2022.