Jean-François Zevaco

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Jean-François Zevaco (born August 8, 1916 in Casablanca , French Morocco , † 2003 ) was a French architect who worked in Morocco . Zévaco designed a wide variety of buildings in Morocco, particularly in Casablanca in the 1950s to 1970s. While the quality of his architectural work is recognized on the one hand, his role as part of the French colonial system has recently been critically examined.

He is the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1980.

Life

Zévaco was born in Morocco as the son of French emigrants. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , which he graduated in 1945. From 1947 he worked as an architect in Morocco and created formative works, especially in Casablanca. While his work of the 1940s and 1950s is particularly committed to a strict modernism , his work of the 1960s is brutalist . His entire work deals with Moroccan traditions and needs of the climate. Zévaco can therefore also be seen as a trailblazer for critical regionalism .

Zevaco continued to build after the end of colonialism and was a sought-after architect for projects in the newly independent Morocco.

Entrance to the thermal bath, Sidi Harazem (2019)

Works (selection)

  • (with Paolo Messina ): Villa Sami Suissa, Casablanca (1947–48)
  • (with Paolo Messina): Aérogare de Tit-Mellil, Casablanca (1951)
  • (with Paolo Messina): Villa Rosilio, Casablanca (1951)
  • Ateliers Vincent Timsit, Casablanca (1952)
  • Center de Rééducation et d'observation, Casablanca (1953–60)
  • (with Emile-Jean Duhon ): Pavilion of the City of Casablanca at the International Fair in Casablanca (1954)
  • Petrol station and car service station, Marrakech (1958)
  • Thermal bath and hotel, Sidi Harazem (1958–63)
  • Ecole Théophile Gautier, Casablanca (1960–63)
  • Faculty of Education, Ouarzazate (1961)
  • Post Office, Agadir (1963)
  • Houses with patio, Agadir (1965)
  • Courthouse, Beni Mellal (1966)
  • National Bank for Economic Development, Rabat (1966)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the Desert of Modernity. House of World Cultures , accessed March 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zevaco, Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca , French Morocco
DATE OF DEATH 2003