Casablanca

Casablanca became a major setting for twentieth-century experiments in architecture and urban planning. Its planned districts used broad avenues, defined perspectives and functional zoning, while successive building programmes brought different approaches to housing and civic construction into the expanding city.

The architectural fabric combines Art Deco, modernist and locally derived forms. Terraces, loggias and pergolas appear alongside reinforced concrete construction, with tilework, carved wood and stucco contributing to buildings that adapted international models to Moroccan traditions. These exchanges are visible across residential and public architecture. The resulting urban character depends on street composition and ordinary building types as much as on individual landmarks, with planning also reflecting the social divisions of the colonial period.