Distinctive Features of the Composition of Damascus Buildings During the Period of the French Mandate

The article is devoted to study the features of the volumetric compositional organization of the buildings in Damascus during the French Mandate; the author determined the architectural-artistic image of the buildings in Damascus during that period. A comparative study of the architectural elements of the facades of buildings in the city of Damascus during the French Mandate and the identification of Western architectural influences on traditional architecture was carried out. The residential and public buildings built during the French Mandate and located on the main streets and squares of Damascus can be classified according to the adopted type of compositional solutions, and each of which has analogs in the architecture of France (more broadly, Europe) of the second half of the 19th early 20th centuries. The purpose of this article is to study and analyze the features of the composition of the buildings in Damascus during the period of the French Mandate, to determine the nature of the influence of European architecture on local architecture.