Brutalism in Morocco

Morocco holds one of Africa's richest bodies of postwar concrete architecture. Casablanca was a laboratory for French modernists before independence in 1956, and afterward a generation of architects developed a confident local modernism. Its outstanding figure was Jean-François Zevaco, whose sculptural concrete public buildings, including the Post Office (1963) in Agadir, combined brutalist boldness with sun-shading forms suited to the climate.

Agadir itself, rebuilt after the devastating 1960 earthquake, became a showcase of this architecture, with works such as the Town Hall (1961) by Emile Duhon contributing to a coherent modernist city center.