Abe journal, architecture beyond europe, 25 | 2025
Moroccanization: Architecture and (In)dependence
First Edition
Everyone even vaguely knowledgeable about the historiography of colonial architecture will be familiar with some of the scholarship on French Morocco. Read More
This issue presents an in-depth historiographic overview, with contributions that delve deep into the complex institutional settings which underpinned the production of the built environment in both colonial and postcolonial Morocco,
bringing to the fore less well-known studies and stimulating new scholarship on post-1956 developments that will surely be of interest to an anglophone audience. It also makes a timely and much needed plea to extend the scope of research to an "au-delà du colonial" and thus towards the “temps long de l'indépendance”, raising issues of professionalization, training, dependencies and identity along with the concept of “Moroccanization” that are also fundamental for studying the architectural history in other post-independence contexts.
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- Publisher
- InVisu
- Edited by
- Ben Clark, Nadya Rouizem,
- Journal
- ABE Journal | n° 25
- Language
- English
- Publisher Category
- Applied Sciences > Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Publisher Category
- Applied Sciences > Urbanism and Territorial Development
- Publisher Category
- Natural Sciences
- BISAC Subject Heading
- ARC000000 ARCHITECTURE > POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE > SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE
- BIC subject category (UK)
- R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning > G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects > J Society & social sciences
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3395 GEOGRAPHIE > 3801 OUVRAGES DE DOCUMENTATION > 3283 SCIENCES POLITIQUES
- Title First Published
- 01 December 2025
- Type of Work
- Journal Issue
Paperback
- Product Detail
- 1
- Publication Date
- 01 December 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9791097315276
- Extent
- Absolute page count : 258
- Code
- 109655
- Dimensions
- 17 x 23.5 cm
- List Price
- 48.50 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Editorial / Éditorial
Johan Lagae, Sarah Melsens, Ricardo Costa Agarez, Tania Sengupta 5 & 9
Dossier: moroccanization: architecture and (in)dependence
Ben Clark and Nadya Rouizem, Introduction
Lahbib El Moumni, From Colonial Tool to a Nation-Building Instrument: The Service de l'urbanisme in Morocco
Ben Clark, Soft, Slow, and Low-Cost Architecture: CERF’s Foreign Experts in Morocco (1967-1972)
Amine Mohamed Bajji, Building Independence: Transnational Aid, Professional Networks, and Moroccan Elites in the Making of École Mohammadia d’ingénieurs (1959-1980)
Tifawt Loudaoui, Architecture of Post-Independence Tourism: Early "villages de vacances" on the Tetouan Coast (1965-1970)
Debate
Nadya Rouizem, L’hôpital Ibn Sina de Rabat : héritage colonial ou (non-)lieu de mémoire
Document / sources
Ghita Ouassini and Lahbib El Moumni, Beyond Architectural Boundaries: The Role of Cinema Sources in Rewriting Moroccan Histories
Dissertation abstracts
Daniel Williford, Concrete Futures: Technologies of Urban Crisis in Colonial and Postcolonial Morocco
Michele Tenzon, Recomposing Fragments: Village Design, Rural Modernisation and the Decolonisation Agenda in Morocco
Riad Kherdeen, Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and Haunting in the Aftershock of Morocco’s Agadir Earthquake (1960)
Reviews
Miles Glendinning
Chua Beng Huat, Public Subsidy / Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing, Singapore: NUS Press, 2024
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Jyoti Pandey Sharma, Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi, London; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023
Paola Colleoni
Thomas Coomans (ed.), Missionary Spaces: Imagining, Building, Contesting
Christianities in Africa and China, 1830s-1960s, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024 (KADOC-Artes, 17)