The Marrakesh Agdal (Morocco)
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2000
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 2000
58 pages
47 illustrations in colour and 21 black and white
out of print
A great rectangular enclosure, 440 hectares laid out as gardens and orchards with square modules interspersing cultivated areas with stands of trees of different species. The overall design originated in Mesopotamia in the VIII century B.C. and spread through Persia to the whole of the Islamic area and well into the Iberian peninsula.
The Agdal itself dates from 1157, when Marrakesh, which had been founded almost a century earlier as the Almoravid capital, became the capital of the empire of the Almohads, the Berber people who were dominant from the Niger to Tunisia and from the Libyan coast to the Tagus.
Contents
Regolamento del premio, 4
Programma dell’undicesima edizione, 5
Motivazione della giuria, 6
Marocco, piccolo atlante storico-geografico, 10
L’Agdal e i giardini di Marrakech nella storia della città, 12
Marrakech “città giardino”: perdita degli spazi verdi dalla città coloniale
a oggi, 36
Regimazioni idrauliche nell’Haouz di Marrakech, 42
Le khettara e lo sfruttamento delle acque sotterranee nell’Haouz, 46
Marocco: cronologia essenziale, 50
Glossario, 50
Bibliografia, 52
