In 1930 the French government celebrated the French Algerian Centennial, marking 100 years of colonial occupation. As part of the event, architect Leon Claro designed the Indigenous House of the Centennial based on a standardized version of the courtyard house found in the Casbah of Algiers. This description is from Dr. Zeynep Celik from her... Continue Reading →
More photos from a trip to Algiers last year. These photos were taken at the Bardo Museum, a recently rehabilitated Turkish Villa housing artifacts from prehistory to antiquity to Ottoman times. During my visit most exhibits and artifacts were still in storage, as interior renovations had only recently finished.
Back in May of 2013 I spent a few weeks in Algeria and got to explore Algiers before flying home. Yesterday I showed a few photographs of the Sacred Heart Cathedral. Here are the photographs I took from the interior. Apologies for the low quality. The structure and textures are amazing. I don't know if... Continue Reading →
A few photos from a trip last year to Algeria, today of the Cathedrale du Sacre-Coeur d'Alger. It was planned and designed before Algeria gained independence from France, but was completed after to a country whose Catholic inhabitants were part of one of the greatest mass exoduses in human history. Notice in the first photograph that... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 