• Michel Écochard (11 March 1905 - 24 May 1985) was a French architect and urban planner. He played a large part in the urban planning of Casablanca from...
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  • Ecochard or Écochard is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henri Ecochard (1923–2020), French military officer Michel Écochard...
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    in the first rank of postwar modern architects. In the early 1950s, Michel Écochard, director of urban planning under the French Protectorate in Morocco...
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    indicated a transition toward Modern architecture. In the 1940s, Michel Écochard took over urban planning and focused on a linear plan with industrial...
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    been given the same historical priority. During the French mandate, Michel Écochard, the French architect, planned an urban scheme for the city, that advised...
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    Forces Armées Royales, created under the new urban planning proposed by Michel Écochard. The square became a bus station for a period of time in the midcentury...
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  • modernist architects working in Morocco. It began under the direction of Michel Écochard, director of urban planning in Morocco during the later years of the...
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    been noted as a prominent example of modernism within the Maghreb. Michel Écochard was appointed Director of the Service de l’Urbanisme et de l’Architecture...
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    Avenue des Forces Armées Royales, under new urban planning proposed by Michel Écochard. Meanwhile, the branch had moved in 1937 to its iconic location on...
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    1950s. The Groupe des Architectes Modernes Marocains—at first led by Michel Écochard, director of urban planning under the French Protectorate—was active...
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    Beaudouin, Georges Benoit-Lévy, Marius Boyer, Alexandre Chemetoff, Michel Écochard, Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier, Tony Garnier, Eugène Hénard, Gaston...
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    Zehrfuss, Jean Balladur, Georges Candilis, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Michel Écochard, etc.) and architect-engineers such as Jean Prouvé. 1955 : Accompanies...
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    began immediately and was handled by architects Lucien Cavaro, and Michel Ecochard. The architects conducted a simplified, less ornate reconstruction...
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    organised by University in India Habitat Centre. Raj Rewal worked at Michel Ecochard's office in Paris before starting his practice in New Delhi in 1962...
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    Casablanca as a "laboratory of urbanism," and the French urbanist Michel Écochard—director of the Service de l'Urbanisme, Casablanca's urban planning...
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  • d'Archeologie. In 1954 Youngerman was commissioned by the architect Michel Ecochard to create a color design for the College Protestant Français in Beirut...
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  • masterful French planning and administration. The French urbanist Michel Écochard, the director of the Service de l'Urbanisme, Casablanca's urban planning...
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    Kuwait City. It was established in 1983 and designed by architect Michel Ecochard. The museum comprises five buildings set around a central garden, their...
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    Unit scheme despite regional opposition. He favored French architect Michel Ecochard over Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis for the planning of the...
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    Alumni Club (1952), Dar al Sayad (1954), and the Shell building (1959). Michel Ecochard (1905–1985) a graduated of the Ecole des Beaux Arts who developed the...
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  • September 2013. "University of Karachi - About Us". Verdeil, Éric (2019). Michel Ecochard sur l'autre rive de la Méditerranée (in French). Atelier Baie / Villes...
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    and in 1932 the first floor atrium was created by French architect Michel Ecochard. After the World War I, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and Lebanon...
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  • ArchNet. "Damascus". Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Michel Ecochard (1930s). "Damascus Albums". Regional Surveys. ArchNet. 33°30′47″N 36°17′31″E...
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    continued under the direction of the Director of Urban Planning Morocco, Michel Ecochard. After 1950 and the opening of the new commercial port, the city grew...
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  • and popular resistance and therefore a threat to the colonial order. Michel Écochard, director of urban planning in Morocco under the French Protectorate...
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  • International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM)—when it was created by Michel Ecochard. The GAMMA's activities would continue up until 1959. Around this time...
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  • ten buildings, five of which were conceived by the French planner Michel Ecochard, and also added an athletic stadium on Damascus street: "Le stade de...
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  • described his relationship with Écochard as "tumultuous;" while he respected his intellect and work ethic, Ecochard was "clearly an active instrument...
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  • Italy. In 1979, he was in Paris, and associated with the architect Michel Écochard whom he met in Tehran, he participated in the first competition of...
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    collection also comprises the archives of the French architect-planner Michel Ecochard and the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, winner of the first AKAA Chairman’s...
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