Marius Germinal Boyer (22 September 1885, Marseille24 December 1947, Casablanca
) was a French architect active in Casablanca, Morocco.
Biography
Marius Boyer was admitted to the
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine
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in Paris in 1904.
He was a student of and ascended to the in 1904 and to the class in 1908.
At the time, students had to ascend from the to the . He won the in 1910, and he earned his diploma around 1913.
He moved to Casablanca, then under the authority of the
French Protectorate in Morocco
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, where he worked with
Jean Balois.
He worked as a professor of architecture at .
Notable works
Some of his important projects include the
Glawi Building (1922), the
''Vigie Marocaine'' Building (1924), the
Lévy-Bendayan Building (1928), the
Wilaya Building of Casablanca (1928-1936), the
Moses Assayag Building (1930-1932), the Hotel Transatlantique (c. 1932), the (1934),
Cinema Vox (c. 1935), and the
Anfa Hotel 1938.
References
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1885 births
1947 deaths
20th-century French architects
French expatriates in Morocco
Architects from Marseille