André Ravéreau, Sub-Saharan Africa works. Transpositions and Synthesis between North and South Sahara

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Ruggeri, Daniela. 2023. « André Ravéreau, Sub-Saharan Africa Works. Transpositions and Synthesis Between North and South Sahara ». FAMagazine. Ricerche E Progetti sull’architettura E La Città, nᵒ 68: 91-102, bibliographie, consulté le 1 juin 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/52631

Titre: André Ravéreau, Sub-Saharan Africa works. Transpositions and Synthesis between North and South Sahara
Auteur: Ruggeri, Daniela Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Date: 2024
Dans: FAMagazine. Ricerche e progetti sull'architettura e la città Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Résumé: This paper investigates the Sub-Saharan works of architect André Ravéreau (Limoges 1919-Aubenas 2017), as interpretations of the Modern Movement in Africa. A student of Auguste Perret, Ravéreau was strongly influenced by Le Corbusier, so much so that he followed in his footsteps by making a journey to study the Saharan architecture of the M'Zab Valley, made known to the West thanks to Le Corbusier’s 1931-33 Carnets
de voyage. In the 1960s, Ravéreau moved to Algeria, where he worked for about twenty years, holding important positions. From 1965 to 1973 he was Architecte en chef des monuments historiques d'Algérie. From the 1970s onwards, his work took him beyond the Algerian desert, to Sub-Saharan Africa, where he received commissions for school and health buildings in Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso; he then took part in the competition for the French Embassy project in Uganda. In his discovery of this “new Africa”, Ravéreau brings with him the experience learned in the M'Zab, which he transfers into his sub-Saharan projects, arriving at new “tropical” solutions always strongly contextualised.
Sujet: Architecture -- Mzab Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Langue: eng
numéro: 68
pages: 91-102
issn: 2039-0491

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