Şevki Balmumcu

Şevki Balmumcu (1905 – 20 April 1982) was a Turkish architect who designed the Ankara Opera House.

The winning of a cinema and office building project competition in Elâzığ is one of the important achievements in his professional life.

However, the most important turning point in his career was the fact that he won the competition for the Ankara exhibition building in 1933.

The building, which was built in 1933–1934, was a successful practice in Soviet Structuralism or Neo-Plasticism styles.

The building, which often hosts exhibitions reflecting the development moves of the republic, was used as a work symbolizing the ideals of Kemalist thought in photographs, postcards and republic posters, and most often in the pages of La Turquie Kemaliste.