M. Fikri Benabdallah

Morocco

Mohammed Fikri Benabdallah graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1980.  Upon returning for Morocco, he joined the architecture division at the Ministry of Urban Planning in Rabat in 1981, supervising a major architectural research program for about a decade.  In 1985, he was elected Secretary General of the Association Nationale des Architectes et Urbanistes, and in 1992 he joined the Conseil Supérieur de l’Ordre des Architectes. He is also a founding member of the Comité directeur du Forum des Architectes. Between 1985 and 2002, he taught at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Rabat. 

With architects Rachid Andaloussi, Taoufiq El Oufir and Abdelouhed Mountassir, he founded GROUPEMENT CONFLUENCES, architects of Projet d’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg. He was also architect of the airports at Fès-Saiss, Al Hoceima, Ouarzazate, and Oujda.  He was the renovation architect of the Maison du Maroc in Paris, and the restoration of the Nejjarine Complex. in Fès, Morocco. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Rehabilitation of Al Qaraouiyine Mosque in Fès. He is President of Rabat Salé Mémoire Association.