Long before the 2023 Venice Biennale, modern African architecture was brought to the world’s attention. Udo Kultermann’s New Architecture in Africa, published in 1963, shed light on that current scene, with striking black-and-white photographs underscoring the audacity of buildings that were contemporary with the process of decolonization.

Among these images were the Moroccan projects of Jean-François Zevaco, who was then working on the reconstruction of Agadir, destroyed by an earthquake in 1960, where his post office became a manifesto of lyrical Brutalism.