Quaderni 2, Morocco Cities of the South Telouet

The book is the second in the “Quaderni | دفاتر” series. The village of Telouet/Imaounin in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains is the destination of our 2023 research trip. Professors and students from the Ecole d’Architecture et de Paysage of Casablanca, the Scuola di Architettura Civile of Politecnico di Milano, the Scuola di Architettura of the Università di Firenze, the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale of the Università di Perugia have participated in the workshop and reflected on the future of the village. This small book compiles the outcomes of a ten-day intensive work, from June 1st to 11th. Following a brief overview of Telouet/Imaounin and its cultural and architectural context, the five projects that were drafted by 30 students from Italian and Moroccan universities are presented. The book concludes with two supplementary essays. The first, authored by one of the three workshop tutors, is accompanied by pictures taken by the students (and selected through a call for photos) with the aim to provide a firsthand account of the workshop from the perspective of the students by documenting the significant moments of the workshop through an illustrated logbook that showcases the students journey towards a shared path. A second essay, authored by the editor of this book, is a glossary of terminology that contextualizes the workshop’s major issues and helps the reader understand the Arabic terms used in the texts.

Quaderni 1: Villes Minières | Mining Cities

The book is the first in the “Quaderni | دفاتر” series, which aims to gather and disseminate the outcomes of the workshops organised by NOSTOI. Thus, the first volume is devoted to our inaugural workshop, “Villes Minières / Mining Cities”, which was held in the Moroccan Phosphate Valley in 2019. The book is divided into three sections, two appendices, and an introduction, where we describe the reason behind the workshop. The three sections are devoted to three topics: the “methodology” used to address the particular issue of Morocco’s mining cities; the “references” selected as instruments for comprehending and analysing the country’s urban phenomenon in a historical perspective and designing possible future scenarios; and, finally, to the “results” of the workshop.

DAr Journal: Design, Architecture, Research

DAr Journal is a biannual international journal aimed at investigating the Islamic culture from the point of view of the architectural and urban design, without referring to specific geographical areas of l Dar-al-Islam and addressing also those architectural and urban characters of the Islamic world that are being consolidating outside its traditional limits. Although the journal aims above all to deepen and consolidate the formal architectural values of the Islamic world, it fosters at the same time an exchange of knowledge between architectural and urban composition and landscape architecture, interior design, history and criticism, philosophy, anthropology and sociology, having as its ultimate goal the reflection on the city, intended as an inclusive and intercultural large house (Dār in Arabic).