AGADIR, Building the Modern Afropolis

399pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Park Books, Zurich, 2022

ISBN: 9783038602767

An account of the remarkable international architectural undertaking to reconstruct the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir following the catastrophic earthquake in February 1960 that almost entirely erased it, killing a third of its population.

Includes previously unpublished archival documents and period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge. Also includes scholarly essays by architects and architecture historians Tom Avermaete, Laure Aurgereau, Irina Davidovici, Janina Gosseye, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Hans Teerds, and Maxime Zaugg, and a three-part interview with Lahsen Roussafi, who witnessed the 1960 earthquake as a student.

Tom Avermaete is Full Professor of History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich’s Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (Institute gta).

Maxime Zaugg is an architect and researcher at ETH Zurich’s Institute gta.