Architektura bidonvilles w Casablance

• Authors: Katarzyna Wiącek

Title variants

EN

The bidonville architecture in Casablanca

Abstracts

EN

The article analyzes the informal architecture of bidonvilles, contemporary shanty towns or slums in Casablanca, Morocco. In the years from 1920 to 1950, Casablanca was an architectural laboratory for French architects and urban planners. New plans of the city expansion by Tardif, Prost, Courtois, and Écochard aimed to structure the uncontrolled sprawl of the city, and define the urban layout of the respective districts. Bidonvilles kept growing as a result of mass migration of the Berbers who were detribalized under the French Protectorate and forced to move from the country to the city. The text discusses bidonvilles as a specific form of transferring “ruralness” to the globalized and overcrowded urban space. It is an expression of willful architecture, “architecture without architect”, erected by the users themselves, out of necessity, without respect for construction standards.

Keywords

PL

bidonvilles; architektura samowolna; architektura nieformalna; architektura bez architekta; anarchitektura

EN

bidonville; willful architecture; informal architecture; architecture without architect; anarchitecture

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 176-196

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Wiącek

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2018.102.14

Biblioteka Nauki

1853506