page_title: Jean-François Zevaco
section_title: Agadir reconstruction
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-François Zevaco / Biography / Agadir reconstruction
caption_attribution_description: العربية: سوق شارع أكادير في الدار البيضاء جون فرنسوا زيفاكو 1973-1974
context_page_description: Jean-François Zevaco was a French-Moroccan architect born in Casablanca. He is considered an emblematic figure of the modernist architectural movement in Morocco and in Africa, and his legacy is important in terms of the number of constructions built across Morocco, the diversity of his works, and their international aura.
  After his finishing his studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Marseille in 1945, he established a private practice in Morocco and started a career spanning from 1947 to 1999. He marked the architecture of the second half of the 20th century with a resolutely modern work in intense dialogue with the country, the people, and the landscapes surrounding him.
context_section_description: Zevaco was a member of the Groupe des Architectes Modernes Marocains (GAMMA). He worked with GAMMA colleagues, including Elie Azagury and Mourad Ben Embarek, in the reconstruction of Agadir after the 1960 earthquake.
  In 1965, Zevaco designed courtyard houses in Agadir that would later earn him an Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
caption: The market on Agadir Street in Casablanca (1972).
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