Natura January - February 2012 | Page 25

BİNADA ARTIK BİR KİTABEVİ VE KÜTÜPHANE DE VAR. THE BUILDING NOW FEATURES A BOOKSTORE AND A LIBRARY. features of Vallaury’s architectural language. Even though the impact of Beaux-Arts architecture was almost always evident in his architecture; he freely used “Ottoman” traditional and/or historic forms together with “European” and “Islamic” elements sometimes in a number of combinations. Apparently, Alexander Vallaury, an Ottoman resident with French education and a French citizen with Italian background