Casablanca Chandigarh 2013
Photographs by Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma
Yto Barrada. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations. From the series Reprendre Casa. Casablanca, August 2013
Yto Barrada. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations. From the series Reprendre Casa. Casablanca, August 2013.
Yto Barrada. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations. From the series Reprendre Casa. Casablanca, August 2013.
Yto Barrada. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations. From the series Reprendre Casa. Casablanca, August 2013
Yto Barrada. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations. From the series Reprendre Casa. Casablanca, August 2013
Yto Barrada. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations. From the series Reprendre Casa. Casablanca, August 2013
We commissioned Yto Barrada Takashi Homma to take these photographs in Casablanca and Chandigarh. They were part of an exhibition and publication project we carried out in 2013 on modern urban planning and architecture in the two cities.