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05/10/2026

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Il y a quelques semaines, nous achevions un workshop avec l’Architectural Association, entre Marrakech, Tahanaout et Marigha.

À travers visites de terrain, travail collectif, maquettes, conférences et expérimentations autour de la terre crue, nous avons exploré les matériaux locaux, les savoir-faire et les cultures constructives du Haut Atlas.

Plus qu’un exercice de projet, ce workshop était une invitation à observer, écouter et apprendre du territoire, en considérant l’architecture comme un outil de transmission autant que de transformation.

Merci à l’AA, à l’UM6P, aux étudiants, tuteurs, intervenants, artisans et communautés qui ont partagé cette expérience avec nous.

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A few weeks ago, we concluded a workshop with the Architectural Association, moving between Marrakech, Tahanaout and Marigha.

Through field visits, collective work, model making, lectures and hands-on experimentation with raw earth, we explored local materials, building cultures and traditional know-how across the High Atlas.

More than a design exercise, the workshop was an invitation to observe, listen and learn from the territory, seeing architecture as a tool for transmission as much as transformation.

Thank you to the AA, UM6P, the students, tutors, guests, craftspeople and communities who shared this experience with us.

Drawing credits mahreksalma

02/10/2026

SAPD | AÏT BEN HADDOU · ARCHITECTURAL FIELDWORK

Learning from the territory, its architecture and its people.

From Aït Ben Haddou through the Ounila Valley to Telouet, SAPD’s third-year architecture students explored the relationships between landscape, built heritage and everyday life.

Through guided visits, sketches, photographs and conversations with local residents, this immersion brought the Y3 studio’s focus on resources into the field: observing local materials, construction techniques and ways of inhabiting to inform architectural thinking and future design work.

A special thank you to the We Speak Citizen association, Maison de l'Oralité ⵜⵉⴳⵎⵎⵉ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵡⴰⵍ دار التراث الشفاهي and Ms Loubna Mona for welcoming and guiding us with such warmth and hospitality. Their generosity in sharing invaluable knowledge and insights deepened our understanding of the territory and made this experience especially memorable.

Our sincere thanks go first to the teaching team — Ateliers be , karim El Achak , Abdelhakim Guilmi , MBBW , FATIMA-AZZAHRA BENDAHMANE — for their guidance, commitment and support throughout this learning experience.

We also thank our UM6P - School of Architecture, Planning & Design students for their dedication, curiosity and active engagement.

We extend our gratitude to the local communities for their welcome and for sharing their experiences and knowledge with us.

30/09/2026

TERRES EN PARTAGE – Architectures entre le Maroc et la France🇲🇦🇫🇷

Vernissage & conversation autour de l’architecture, des savoir-faire et des territoires.
Une exposition réunissant les projets des étudiants de l’ESA Paris (École Spéciale d'Architecture) et de la SAP+D – UM6P de Benguerir (UM6P - School of Architecture, Planning & Design), autour de l’architecture, des savoir-faire locaux et des transitions environnementales.
Commissariat d’exposition : Alexandre Schrepfer

📍 Galerie Leila Alaoui – Institut français à Marrakech
🗓️ 25 septembre 2026

23/09/2026

A look behind the scenes of the inaugural edition of Grounds of Repair, co-organised by the UM6P School of Architecture, Planning & Design (SAPD) and the AA Visiting School.

From field explorations in the Al Haouz region to hands-on experimentation with earth, stone and lime, participants worked alongside local artisans and national and international practitioners to explore how architectural knowledge can emerge from—and remain grounded in—territory.

Across eleven days, observations became drawings, materials became prototypes, and individual encounters evolved into collective architectural responses. The journey concluded at SAPD with presentations, reviews and an exhibition bringing together the processes, questions and lessons developed throughout the programme.

More than a workshop, Grounds of Repair created a shared space for learning through making—and for considering repair not simply as reconstruction, but as a way of carrying knowledge forward.

A glimpse into the people, materials and moments that shaped this first edition.

21/09/2026

🌍 TERRES EN PARTAGE

La School of Architecture, Planning & Design de l’UM6P et l’École Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris présentent Terres en partage, une exposition accueillie par l’Institut français de Marrakech.

À travers des projets développés dans la médina de Marrakech et sur d’autres territoires marocains, l’exposition met en lumière les travaux réalisés par les étudiants del SAPD et de l’école spéciale de Paris dans le cadre de leur semestre international à l’automne 2025, ainsi que leurs projets de recherche de fin d’études.

Une invitation à croiser les regards et les pratiques autour d’une même ambition : expérimenter, construire et prendre soin des milieux habités, en portant une attention particulière aux contextes, aux ressources locales et aux savoir-faire qui façonnent les territoires.

📅 Du 25 septembre au 3 novembre 2026
🕙 Du mardi au samedi, de 10 h à 18 h
📍 Galerie Leïla Alaoui — Institut français de Marrakech

Commissariat de l’exposition : Alexandre Schrepfer

07/09/2026

🌍 Common Ground: Earth, Care, and the Architecture of Urban Futures

To mark the opening of the 2026–2027 academic year, the School of Architecture, Planning & Design (SAPD), in collaboration with the AA Visiting School, is pleased to host a symposium exploring the connections between earth, care for territories, and the design of more resilient urban futures.

Taking place as a continuation of the Grounds of Repair workshop and as part of the SAPD Conference Series, this event will create a space for dialogue around building practices, local knowledge, and new approaches to architecture in response to today’s environmental and social challenges.

The symposium will bring together Tarik Zoubdi, Arnaud Magnin, Saad Tazi, Khalil Morad El Ghilali, and Mika Sautet, with the discussion moderated by Rim Cherkaoui.

A special opportunity to bring together diverse perspectives, exchange ideas, and foster a collective reflection on territories and the architecture of tomorrow.

📅 Thursday, 10 September 2026
🕙 10:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍 Ibn Rochd Amphitheater — UM6P Campus, Benguerir

07/09/2026

As part of the inaugural edition of Grounds of Repair, the UM6P School of Architecture, Planning & Design (SAPD) and the AA Visiting School are pleased to welcome Khalil Morad El Ghilali Ateliers be as Tutor and Community & Institutional Liaison, alongside Rim Cherkaoui as Programme Head and Tutor.

Founder of Atelier BE, Khalil is a Moroccan architect, urbanist and researcher whose practice explores the relationships between local materials, territorial knowledge and climate-related challenges. Working across architecture, landscape and research, he approaches design as an act of care—one grounded in the attentive reading of places, resources and building cultures.

Architect and researcher, Rim leads the programme’s academic and pedagogical direction. Her role brings together field research, collaborative learning and design experimentation, ensuring that the workshop remains closely connected to the social, material and territorial realities of Al Haouz.

Together, their complementary roles are central to Grounds of Repair: connecting institutions and communities, coordinating different forms of knowledge, and creating the conditions for meaningful exchange between students, practitioners, researchers and local artisans.

Co-organised by UM6P–SAPD and the AA Visiting School, Grounds of Repair is an eleven-day workshop rooted in Marigha and shaped by the realities of the Al Haouz region following the 2023 earthquake. Through territorial observation, field research, material experimentation and collective prototyping, the programme explores situated and collaborative approaches to repair.

📅 1–11 September 2026
📍 Benguerir · Marrakech · Al Haouz

Follow the journey and meet the people shaping this inaugural edition through their knowledge, experience and commitment.

06/09/2026

🏆 Call for Entries — YMAA 2026

Young architects and architecture graduates, this is your opportunity to showcase your work and share your vision for the future of Moroccan architecture!

The UM6P School of Architecture, Planning & Design (SAPD) is proud to be an official institutional partner of the third edition of the Young Moroccan Architecture Awards, organized by Groupe Archimedia.

With a national reach and international outlook, the YMAA provide a unique platform for emerging talents to present their projects to a distinguished jury, gain professional recognition, and connect with key figures from the architecture and construction sectors.

Two awards are specifically dedicated to architecture graduates from the Classes of 2025 and 2026:

▪️ Best Female Graduation Project
▪️ Best Male Graduation Project

Have you developed an innovative, meaningful, or forward-thinking project? Now is the time to give it the visibility it deserves.

📅 Application deadline: September 30, 2026
🌐 Applications and further information: www.ymaa.ma

Share your vision. Showcase your project. Join the new generation shaping the future of architecture.

04/09/2026

As part of the inaugural edition of Grounds of Repair, the UM6P School of Architecture, Planning & Design (SAPD) and the AA Visiting School are pleased to welcome Mika Sautet Mika Sautet Architecte as a tutor.

Trained at ENSA Montpellier and ENSA La Réunion, Mika is an architect and eco-construction practitioner whose work lies at the intersection of architecture and craftsmanship. Her experience in tropical environments shaped an early interest in bioclimatic design, while her training with Le Gabion strengthened her hands-on expertise in building and restoring with raw earth, straw and lime.

Based in the Pays d’Arles, her practice focuses on renovation, rehabilitation and low-impact construction. Through the use of local and bio-based resources—including rice straw, rice husk and adobe—she explores ways of adapting existing buildings and construction knowledge to contemporary environmental and social needs.

Co-organised by UM6P–SAPD and the AA Visiting School, Grounds of Repair is an eleven-day workshop rooted in Marigha and shaped by the realities of the Al Haouz region following the 2023 earthquake. Bringing together students, architects, researchers, practitioners and local artisans, the programme combines territorial observation, field research, material experimentation and collective prototyping to explore situated approaches to repair.

📅 1–11 September 2026
📍 Benguerir · Marrakech · Al Haouz

Follow the journey and meet the people contributing their knowledge and experience to this inaugural edition.

31/08/2026

We are pleased to welcome architect and researcher Quentin Wilbaux to the UM6P School of Architecture, Planning and Design as part of Grounds of Repair, a workshop co-organised by UM6P–SAPD and the AA Visiting School, taking place from 1 to 11 September 2026.

For more than four decades, Quentin Wilbaux has studied, documented and worked within the medina of Marrakech. Since arriving in the city in 1982, his practice has brought together architecture, research and preservation—from the restoration of over 137 traditional houses to the creation of an extensive archive of surveys, drawings and photographs documenting the historic urban fabric.

Drawing on this long-standing, situated experience, his lecture will explore Marrakech as a living construction culture shaped by maâlems, local materials, inherited techniques and evolving ways of inhabiting. He will examine traditional building practices, the relationship between earth and concrete, and the lessons emerging from the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake, informed by his direct experience on the ground in its immediate aftermath.

This opening lecture will introduce participants to some of the central questions guiding Grounds of Repair: How can traditional knowledge inform contemporary approaches to reconstruction? What does it mean to repair a place while preserving the cultures, skills and relationships through which it was built?

📅 2 September 2026
🕙 From 10:00 AM
📍 Studio 2A — UM6P–SAPD, Benguerir

We look forward to welcoming you for this insightful conversation at the intersection of architecture, craftsmanship, heritage and repair.

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