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Agadir, Morocco: Synthetic City
August 28, 2009  -  September 4, 2009

In May and June of 2009, Assistant Professor Marshall Brown toured Morocco with ten students from the IIT College of Architecture. The travel was funded by the Rotch Travelling [sic] Studio Scholarship from the Boston Society of Architects. This special grant is given to one school of architecture in the United States annually to fund a single traveling studio. 

The group's main destination was Agadir, where they  spent several days surveying the condition of the 1960s urban core in order to understand how it operates today, in the context of Agadir's transformation into a global tourist destination. The students focused on strategies for reanimating the modernist urban core in ways that address the urban and ecological challenges of current tourism-related coastal development.

Their design proposals for Agadir's public spaces and public infrastructures, as well as material collected during the trip, will be on exhibit at IIT before traveling to Boston and possibly to Morocco for the 50th anniversary of the reconstruction of Agadir.

Free and open to the public.

Opening reception: Aug. 28, 6:30 - 8 pm
Exhibition: Aug. 28 through Sept. 4
Crown Hall, North Core
3360 S. State Street