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Casablanca colonial myths and architectural ventures
Jean-Louis Cohen Monique
Eleb
1945-
New York Monacelli Press 2002
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Title:
Casablanca colonial myths and architectural ventures
Author:
Jean-Louis Cohen
Monique
Eleb
1945-
Subjects:
Architecture -- Morocco -- Casablanca -- History -- 20th century
;
ARQUITETURA (HISTÓRIA) -- SÉCULO 20 -- CASABLANCA (MARROCOS)
;
PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL URBANO (HISTÓRIA) -- SÉCULO 20
;
Casablanca (Morocco) -- Buildings, structures, etc
;
Casablanca (Maroc) -- Constructions
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-460) and index ; Filmography: p. 461
Description:
Introduction -- A bad start for a city of adventure: from Anfa to Casablanca -- Henri Prost's plan (1914-1917): a flexible approach -- The rule and the monument -- Planning Casablanca after 1920 -- Living in the Ville Nouvelle in the 1920s -- 1930-1940: From Art Deco to modernism in residential construction -- Building the new Medina and housing the workers -- Building modern leisure facilities -- The post-1945 golden age and its dark side -- Michel Ecochard's Controversial urbanism (1950-1952) -- Culture-Specefic housing for Muslims: the age of large-scale -- Housing the Europeans -- Villas, beachside resorts, and movie theaters: Hedonism at work -- Epilogue.
Casablanca is a city of international renown, not least because of its urban structures and features. Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port city well before the introduction of the French in 1907, it unquestionably ranks among the most significant urban creations of the twentieth century, attracting remarkable teams of architects and planners. Their commissions came from clients who were interested in innovation and modernization, thereby fostering the emergence of Casablanca as a laboratory for legislative, technological, and visual experimentation. Having studied the city for ten years, Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique
Eleb
trace, from the late nineteenth century to the early 1960s, the rebirth of a once-forgotten port and its metamorphosis into a teeming metropolis that is an amalgam of Mediterranean culture from Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, and Italy. The extensive presentation of the significant buildings of this hybrid city -- where, alongside the French, Muslim and Jewish Moroccan patrons commissioned provocative buildings -- is drawn from French and Moroccan archives, including hundreds of previously unpublished photographs. Cohen and Eleb focus as much on Casablanca's diverse social fabric as its urban spaces, chronicling the clients, inhabitants, and inventive architects who comprise the human component of an essential yet overlooked episode of modernism
Publisher:
New York Monacelli Press
Creation Date:
2002
Format:
480 p ill. (some col.), maps 28 cm.
Language:
English
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