"[2] His father, Habib Ayrout, was an Egyptian architect and contractor, born into a family originally from Aleppo, Syria.
[3] After being educated in Paris as an engineer-architect, Habib Ayrout participated in the planning and construction of Heliopolis.
[4] Ayrout was part of a movement of French educated Syrian-Lebanese Egyptian architects, who were strongly influenced by the French 'modern classicism' of Michel Poux-Spitz and Pol Abraham.
This movement also included Antonine Selim Nahas and Raymond Antonious.
[5] However, he stressed on learning the principles of Modrnist architecture, and reapplying them in Egypt as opposed to copying them.