L’apport des Guiauchain au patrimoine architectural algérois (1830-1930)

Abstract

The Guiauchain in Algeria: one family, three architects, three times and three different ways of thinking of colonial architecture. It is in this light that this research is based. Our interest is in both the history of French architecture in Algeria and the artistic and intellectual trajectory of this unique line of architects face the Algerian architecture of the nineteenth–twentieth century, who from 1830, has linked his name with many achievements in the Algerian capital. From the cross of colonial urban doctrines but also largely marked by the interaction of European standards with local realities and the modern movement, Guiauchain’s architecture represents a rich heritage of a great variety of forms; From Pierre Augustus, to Georges Adrein Auguste until last Jacques, they transmitted the profession of architecture from father to sun and “were a dynasty of builders” in Algeria and this from the early years of colonization. Indeed the operations brought to Algiers by this family form an architectural corpus of great diversity and great interest. These little-known achievements deserve to be analyzed to the extent that they are fully representative of the climate of experimentation that took place in the years 1830- 1930 in Algiers. This research tries to uncover the dynasty of architects that has gone through more than a century of history and architectural production, where all these three actors shows through its orientations and biases in a particular time support of Algerian heritage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.