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On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir was also an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects — national and international — to simultaneously design the new city.
The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality: a modern Afropolis.
This book for the first time thoroughly explores the forgotten tale of Agadir's reconstruction. It features previously unpublished archival documents and striking period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge, alongside scholarly essays by architects and architecture historians Tom Avermaete, Laure Augereau, Irina Davidovici, Janina Gosseye, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Hans Teerds, and Maxime Zaugg. A three-part interview with Lachsen Roussafi, who witnessed the 1960 earthquake as a student, rounds out this tantalising narration of the international architectural adventure of rebuilding Agadir as the modern Afropolis.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 Introduction
Tom Avermaete, Cathelijne Nuijsink
02 Mapping Agadir
Maxime Zaugg
FOUNDATIONS
00 The City and the 1960 Earthquake
Lahsen Roussafi
00 Urbanisme Solidaire: Codes and Conventions as Project for a New City
Tom Avermaete
00 The Contact Zone of Agadir's Emergency Aid Operations
Cathelijne Nuijsink
00 Brutalism: 'The Gem of Morocco's Contribution to World Culture'
Laure Augereau, Imad Dahmani, Lahbib Elmoumni
000 Building Agadir
Maxime Zaugg
TRANSLATIONS
000 The Reconstruction
Lahsen Roussafi
000 On Squares, Stairs, Paths, Plinths, Trees and Shade in Agadir's Reconstructed Centre
Hans Teerds
000 Re-organising Agadir, Re-constructing the Neighbourhood
Janina Gosseye
000 Housing Figures: Social and Spatial A-Synchronicities
Irina Davidovici
000 Inhabiting Agadir
Maxime Zaugg, Michael Blaser
TRANSFORMATIONS
000 The Evolution of the City
Lahsen Roussafi
000 Architecture of Resilience: Privacy and Privatisation in Agadir Housing
Tom Avermaete, Irina Davidovici
000 Agadir's Shifted Centralities
Janina Gosseye, Hans Teerds
000 Coda
Cathelijne Nuijsink, Maxime Zaugg
000 Regarding Agadir
David Grandorge, Introduction by Irina Davidovici
