L’architecture des casinos-hôtels du XIXe & XXe siècle en Algérie

Abstract

The Algerian scene has known the passage of different civilizations, in different periods of time, civilizations that marked its history. One of which is the colonization period, a period that left an important amount of built heritage, that belongs to different architectural styles, such as the neo Moorish, the industrial style and the Neoclassic style This heritage representative* of important patrimonial values, knowingly it represents an important era of the Algerian history, it has pedagogic values. However, this heritage, while waiting to be patrimonialized has become vulnerable due to the irreversible changes that occurred to it, the effect of elements of time, and the lack of maintenance. In the absence of a law that protects this heritage, and considering the deteriorated state that it’s in, urgent interventions are required, and the first action is to contribute to the knowledge and recognition of this built fortune, and that happens throw academicals studies such as the architectural monography. Throw the monographic study of the Fort-de-l’Eau’s Casino-Hotel, the current study, that occurs in research-master degree in Architecture, forms a modest attempt to contribute in the knowledge of a particular typology in the French architecture in colonized Algeria, that vanished to know Casinos- Hotels