This is a list of architects,

urban planner An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning. An urban planner may focus on a specific area of practice and have a title such as city planner, tow ...

s, engineers, overseers and officials that were either born in

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, or lived and worked there for a significant part of their career and who had a notable impact on buildings and towns there.

Ancient Egyptian overseers

Imhotep Imhotep (; "(the one who) comes in peace"; ) was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figur ...

(3rd dynasty) *

Hemiunu Hemiunu (floruit, fl. 2570 BC) was an ancient Egyptian prince who is believed to have been the architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza. As Vizier (Ancient Egypt), vizier, succeeding his father, Nefermaat, and his uncle, Kanefer, Hemiunu was one of ...

(4th dynasty) *

Senenmut Senenmut (, sometimes spelled Senmut, Senemut, or Senmout) was an 18th Dynasty ancient Egyptian architect and government official. His name translates literally as "brother of mother". Family Senenmut was of low commoner birth, born to liter ...

(18th dynasty) *

Amenhotep, son of Hapu Amenhotep, son of Hapu (transcribed ''jmn-ḥtp zꜣ ḥꜣp.w''; early-mid 14th century BC) was an ancient Egyptian architect, a priest, a Reporter (Ancient Egypt), herald, a scribe, and a public official, who held a number of offices under Am ...

(18th dynasty)

19th-century planners and engineers

During the 19th century, planning and construction of villages and infrastructure was undertaken by archaeologists and engineers, especially those who headed the public works departments. *

Pascal Coste Xavier Pascal Coste (26 November 1787 – 8 February 1879) was a French architect. He was at one time a personal architect for Muhammad Ali Pasha. As a seasoned traveller, his travels to Qajar Iran, aroused the interest of King Louis Philippe I ...

(1787–1879) *

Joseph Hekekyan Joseph Hekekyan Bey (1807, Istanbul – 1875), was an Armenian administrator, archaeologist and civil engineer, who lived most of his life in Egypt. Early life and education Joseph Hekekyan was born in 1807 in Constantinople and raised in an Arm ...

(1807–1875) * Linant Pasha (1799–1883) * Ali Mubarak (1823–1893)

Pioneer architects

A term coined by historians and peers for

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

s in Egypt that were very influential in the shaping of the profession, especially initiating a home-grown blend of Egyptian

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, roughly during the second quarter of the 20th Century. * Ali Labib Gabr (1898–1966) *

Mahmoud Riad Mahmoud Riad (; January 8, 1917 – January 25, 1992) was an Egyptian diplomat. He was Egyptian ambassador to United Nations from 1962 to 1964, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1964 to 1972, and Secretary-General of the League of Arab ...

(1905–1977) * Mohamed Kamal Ismail (1908–2008) * Naoum Shebib (1915–1985) * Sayed Karim (1911–2005) * Charles Ayrout (1905–1961)

Neo-vernacularists

Architects that sought significant inspiration in their work, whether from local

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. *

Ramses Wissa Wassef Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–1974) was an Egyptian architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo and founder of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre. Biography Ramses Wissa Wassef was born in Cairo to a Copti ...

(1911–1974) *

Hassan Fathy Hassan Fathy (; March 23, 1900 – November 30, 1989) was a noted Egyptians, Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to reestablish the use of adobe and traditional mud construction as ...

(1900–1989) * Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil (1943– )

Pioneer and contemporary civil engineers

* Michel Bakhoum (1913–1981) * Milad Hanna (1924–2012) * Hani Azer (1948– )

References

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