Jean-François Zevaco and Latin resonances

Casablanca International Fair, City Pavilion, Jean François Zevaco | 1960

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Caracas Museum, Oscar Niemeyer | 1956

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The relationship between Moroccan architects and other Atlantic countries is particularly evident in Jean François Zevaco and other architects of the time.

However, it is also in the same city of Casablanca that he built the City Pavilion for the Casablanca International Fair in 1960, Huge inverted pyramid, and also the same relationship to South American monumentality where Oscar Niemeyer designed a Museum project in Caracas 4 years before. Built in concrete, the inverted pyramid rests on a square base, the four edges come out of the solid and make it a dynamic volume.

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Food market in Casablanca, Jean-François Zevaco | 1972

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Center of the Square Court of the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico City, Pedro Ramirez Vasquez | 1963-64

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The Mexican influence is readable at Zevaco in its municipal market built on rue d'Agadir in 1972, it is covered with square section concrete parasols, or we can link it to the parasol that Pedro Ramirez Vasquez built in the center of the courtyard of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City (1963-1964).