Two Élie and two potential heritages for the architecture of the second half of the 20th century in Morocco?

The reflection of this paper starts from the Moroccan example of architecture related to the second half of the XXth century: the projects which were first conceived and realized by the architects gathered initially in the group GAMMa, formed for the majority of them in the colonizing country, forged a “brutalist” orientation whose technique and aesthetics are strongly marked by the use of concrete. The second half of the 20th century cannot be reduced to these first decades and sooner or later it will be necessary to look back on the last decades of the 20th century, marked by the search for an alternative to the techno-productivist headlong rush of modernity. The present paper confronts while going beyond the individualities they represent, the two Moroccan Élie, the eldest: Azagury (1918 - 2009), and his younger: Mouyal (1957 ...). The first represents the interpretation adapted to Morocco of the international and global architecture of the Modern Movement, while the second, awarded by the 12th TERRA 2016 World Congress on Earthen Architecture, expresses, during the last quarter of the 20th century, an orientation towards sustainable development with the use of updated ancestral and local construction techniques (earth and stone). The resulting works will, sooner or later, have to be questioned from the point of view of their heritage, based on criteria to be rethought, to be refounded, and which the paper tries to define.