Alexandre Vallaury

Alexandre Vallaury (1850–1921[1]) was a French-Ottoman architect who established architectural education in the Ottoman Empire at the School of Fine Arts in Constantinople.

His father, Francesco Vallauri, was a renowned pastry chef from Nice, highly respected in court circles.

Vallaury's nationality is not definitively known; he was born in modern day Istanbul and, as his family emigrated from Nice at a time when the city was still under piedmontese rule, he is assumed to have been of both Franco-Levantine or Italian-Levantine extraction due to his affinity to both cultures.

Between 1869 and 1878, Vallaury lived in Paris, France, where he studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

He used motifs from international Orientalism for some Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Ottoman structures which often incorporated Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau details.