Marius Boyer
Marius Boyer | |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Associated architectural firm[s] |
Marius Germinal Boyer (22 September 1885, Marseille – 24 December 1947, Casablanca[1]) was a French architect active in Casablanca, Morocco.
Biography
Marius Boyer was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1904.[1] He was a student of Gabriel Héraud and ascended to the seconde classe in 1904 and to the première classe class in 1908.[2] At the time, students had to ascend from the seconde classe to the première classe.[3] He won the Prix Américain de l’Architecture in 1910, and earned his diploma around 1913.[2]
He moved to Casablanca, then under the authority of the French Protectorate in Morocco, where he worked with Jean Balois.[4] He worked as a professor of architecture at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Casablanca.[2]
Notable works
Some of his important projects include the Glawi Building (1922), the Vigie Marocaine Building (1924), the Lévy-Bendayan Building (1928), the Wilaya Building of Casablanca (1928-1936), the Moses Assayag Building (1930-1932), the Hotel Transatlantique (c. 1932), the Shell Building (1934), Cinema Vox (c. 1935), and the Anfa Hotel (1938).[2]
References
- ^ a b "Boyer, Marius G". AGORHA: Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-17.
- ^ a b c d Cohen, Jean-Louis; Eleb, Monique (2002). Casablanca: colonial myths and architectural ventures. Monacelli Press. ISBN 978-1-5809-3087-1.
- ^ Gournay, Isabelle; Leconte, Marie-Laure Crosnier (2013). "American Architecture Students in Belle Epoque Paris: Scholastic Strategies and Achievements at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 12 (2): 154–198. doi:10.1017/S1537781413000054. ISSN 1537-7814. JSTOR 43902948. S2CID 162298623.
- ^ "À la découverte du boulevard Mohammed V" [Discovering Mohammed V Boulevard]. Le Matin (in French). 23 April 2015. Retrieved 2025-12-01.