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.<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
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 It features previously unpublished archival documents and striking period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge,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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first-ever full account of the remarkable reconstruction of the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir following the 1960 earthquake, a unique example of innovative and experimental urban design achieved in a then unprecedented joint effort of local and international architects.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
\n01 Introduction
\nTom Avermaete, Cathelijne Nuijsink
\n02 Mapping Agadir
\nMaxime Zaugg
\nFOUNDATIONS
\n00 The City and the 1960 Earthquake
\nLahsen Roussafi
\n00 Urbanisme Solidaire: Codes and Conventions as Project for a New City
\nTom Avermaete
\n00 The Contact Zone of Agadir’s Emergency Aid Operations
\nCathelijne Nuijsink
\n00 Brutalism: ‘The Gem of Morocco’s Contribution to World Culture’
\nLaure Augereau, Imad Dahmani, Lahbib Elmoumni
\n000 Building Agadir
\nMaxime Zaugg
\nTRANSLATIONS
\n000 The Reconstruction
\nLahsen Roussafi
\n000 On Squares, Stairs, Paths, Plinths, Trees and Shade in Agadir’s Reconstructed Centre
\nHans Teerds
\n000 Re-organising Agadir, Re-constructing the Neighbourhood
\nJanina Gosseye
\n000 Housing Figures: Social and Spatial A-Synchronicities
\nIrina Davidovici
\n000 Inhabiting Agadir
\nMaxime Zaugg, Michael Blaser
\nTRANSFORMATIONS
\n000 The Evolution of the City
\nLahsen Roussafi
\n000 Architecture of Resilience: Privacy and Privatisation in Agadir Housing
\nTom Avermaete, Irina Davidovici
\n000 Agadir’s Shifted Centralities
\nJanina Gosseye, Hans Teerds
\n000 Coda
\nCathelijne Nuijsink, Maxime Zaugg
\n000 Regarding Agadir
\nDavid Grandorge, Introduction by Irina Davidovici<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33140,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29381","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-edited-by-maxime-zaugg","8":"author-edited-by-tom-avermaete","9":"publisher-park-books","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n