April 27, 2021
Amina Louiza Lacheheb et al., « Logement collectif et climat méditerranéen à l’époque moderne », Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/mediterranee.12270
Knowledge transfers between North and South, allowed the realization in Algeria from 1953 to 1962 of an impressive architectural and urban work. That echoed the decline of the CIAM (International congress of Modern Architecture), the war of Algeria, the rural migration, the Plan of Constantine and the massive construction of residences. In 1959, Louis Miquel, who belongs to the architects eager to produce a new architecture in this context, exposes a theoretical text, heading, “A problem of urbanism in a Mediterranean climate: cité Henri Sellier at Algiers”, which questions the limits of the modern architecture in the social and climatic Mediterranean context.