Şevki Balmumcu [SEP] date of death
Şevki Balmumcu
Şevki Balmumcu (1905, in Istanbul – 20 April 1982, in Istanbul) was a Turkish architect who designed the Ankara Opera House.
In 1928, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts as an architect. Between 1930 and 1932, he worked as the control architect of many buildings including Bursa Cinema Theater in Bursa, which is among the first modern cinema, theater and concert halls of the republic history.
The winning of a cinema and office building project competition in Elâzığ is one of the
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The exhibition building was converted into an opera house in 1948 by Paul Bonatz. It is said that the transformation of the structure from its original form into an appropriate form for the style of Second National Architecture with its porticoes and ornaments distressed Şevki Balmumcu and removed him from the architectural profession. The architect did not go to Ankara after this incident.
After his success in 1933, Şevki Balmumcu won many architectural design competitions. From 1941 to 1958 he worked in Tekel General Directorate as a construction bureau chief.