Immeuble zevaco biography

Jean-François Zevaco (Arabic: جان فرنسوا زيفاكو,1916–2003) was a French-Moroccan architect born in Casablanca.
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A Jew from a Tangiers family, he was born in Casablanca two years after Zevaco, and in the same building—the Paris-Maroc department store and apartment house.

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Architecture of Casablanca

Built environment in Morocco

The architecture of Casablanca is diverse and historically significant. Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital, has a rich urban history and is home to many notable buildings in a variety of styles. Throughout the 20th century, architecture and urban development in Casablanca evolved in a way that was simultaneously specific to the city's contexts, and consonant with international ideas.

Anfa, as the settlement in what is now Casablanca was known, was built by the Romans according to the Descrittione dell’Africa of Leo Africanus.^[1] The city is located at the mouth of Wādi Būskūra on the Atlantic Ocean in the Chaouia plain, known as Tamasna under the Barghawata.^[2] It was destroyed by the earthquake of 1755 and rebuilt by Sultan Muhammad III of Morocco, who employed European architects, and it was renamed Ad-dār al-Bayḍā (الدار البيضاء).^[3] The sqala, the medina walls, and the two oldest mosques date back to this period.^[3]

The 1906 Algeciras Conference gave the French ho

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Walking Tour – Architecture of Agadir

How to get there:

To not forget the city’s rich past, you can start your route at the old Kasbah of Agadir Oufella (30.429581, -9.624212) to reach the new city and the Loubnan mosque (30.423522 , -9.600476). From this mosque, you can make a large south-southwest loop which will allow you to discover the Administrative City, the Wilaya and the Regional Council, the Administrative Tribunal to go to the Central Market (see map).

Always from the Loubnan Mosque, you can make a 2nd north – northwest loop which will allow you to pass in front of the terraced villas and the patioed villas of the Souss Alima college which are also works of Zevaco. Finally, take the Prince Moulay Abdallah avenue (southeast direction from the Loubnan Mosque), to admire the Town Hall square (Municipality) and the Central Post Office which is also a work of Zevaco.

You can continue the avenue along the Wall of Memory and building D on your left and you will arrive at the fire station designed by the same architect (awarded the prestigious Aga Khan p

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Brutalism in Morocco - the case of the school of Rabat

Organized by: The Casamemoire association

Speaker: Imad Dahmani - Architect, professor at the School of Architecture of Casablanca (EAC), president and co-founder of MAMMA. Group (Memory of Modern Moroccan Architects)

As part of the cultural activities relating to the architecture and heritage of Morocco, we were invited by the Casamemoire association (Association for the safeguarding of the architectural heritage of the 20th century in Morocco) to intervene on brutalist architecture in Morocco, but more precisely on “the school of Rabat”.

This intervention revolves around the issue of the genesis and birth of this school, but also the major players in it. However, it is important to link this pivotal period of Moroccan architecture within the context that composes it. For this, we wanted to first define the notion of brutalism as a movement and architectural style in the global context, but also to demonstrate the close relationship that Morocco had with the international by creating a CIAM-Morocco branc