Architect’s Profile
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Kettani - Mohamed Amine Siana
architects have collaborated on some
important commissions. Thus, they won the
competition of the Polydisciplinar Faculty
of Taroudant in 2006 which was completed
in 2010, won the second prize for the
competition for the Casablanca Grand
Stadium with Portuguese partners Risco
and LDS in 2011, and are currently working
on other educational projects such as the
Lycée Lyautey restructuring in Casablanca.
Kabbaj, Kettani and Siana also completed
the Guelmim School of Technology in 2011
which is shortlisted for the 2016 Aga Khan
Award of Architecture, and the Laayoune
School of Technology in 2014, and won
the Archmarathon Awards in Education
Category in 2015 for the Guelmim project.
Their work has been exhibited in New York,
Paris, Milan, Melbourne and Venice among
others, and they have also given lectures in
Paris, Venice, Beirut and Morocco.
What do you believe differentiates
your work from other practices?
• Our way of working as individuals and a
collaborative practice at the same time.
• Working on various scales, from very
small projects to important commissions
such as universities and stadiums.
• Trying to combine a contemporary
approach and thinking of architecture, but
deeply rooted and taking from the context
its essence.
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