Casablanca – What happens when Moroccan and French architecture meet in the same creative space? A new exhibition in Marrakech is inviting visitors to explore that question through drawings, models, photographs, videos, and architectural experiments.
“Terres en partage – Architectures entre le Maroc et la France” will open on September 25 at the Galerie Leila Alaoui at the Institut français in Marrakech, bringing together works from the École Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris and the School of Architecture, Planning & Design at UM6P in Ben Guerir.
The exhibition grew out of a joint international semester between the two architecture schools held in autumn 2025.
It also features several graduation projects developed across Moroccan territories, giving the exhibition a broader look at how architecture responds to different environments and communities.
Rather than focusing only on finished buildings, “Terres en partage” looks at the process behind them.
The projects explore how architects experiment with local resources, traditional construction techniques, heritage, and contemporary environmental challenges.
This approach gives the exhibition a distinctly grounded character. Architecture here is not only about structures and spaces, but also about how people live in them, care for them, and adapt them to their surroundings.
The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with an open conversation featuring the directors of both schools, members of the teaching teams, and the authors of the exhibited projects. The vernissage will then continue until 8 p.m.
For anyone curious about the relationship between architecture, culture, and place, the exhibition offers a chance to see how ideas can travel between countries while still responding to the character of each territory.
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