Materials
- Zellige: how Moroccan tiles are made in Fez and Tétouan, laid, and bought
- Tadelakt: the Marrakech lime plaster, its technique, uses and mistakes
- Rammed earth (pisé): building and maintaining earthen walls in Morocco
Moroccan Architecture
Typologies, materials, heritage: how Morocco builds, from the courtyard house to earthen construction, and what the protection texts impose.
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Typologies
- The riad: definition, history, layout, and what renovating one requires
- Ksar, kasbah, tighremt: the earthen architecture of southern Morocco
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Moroccan Architecture · Typologies The riad: definition, history, layout, and what renovating one requires
Moroccan Architecture · Materials Zellige: how Moroccan tiles are made in Fez and Tétouan, laid, and bought
Moroccan Architecture · Materials Tadelakt: the Marrakech lime plaster, its technique, uses and mistakes
Moroccan Architecture · Typologies Ksar, kasbah, tighremt: the earthen architecture of southern Morocco
Moroccan Architecture · Materials Rammed earth (pisé): building and maintaining earthen walls in Morocco
About this section
This section describes Moroccan architecture as it exists: the typologies (courtyard house, riad, apartment block, villa, collective housing), the materials (rammed earth, earth brick, stone, timber, zellige, tadelakt) and the rules that govern the historic fabric.
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