Interview with Faissal Cherradi, our heritage expert

‘Faissal Cherradi, consultant architect to the Moroccan Ministry of Culture and specialist in earthen architecture and fortifications, has proclaimed, throughout his long career, a saying in restoration: bring the monuments back to life.

Cherradi strongly advocates that the purpose of rehabilitating monuments and architectural sites has to be improving the living conditions of people living in these areas and argues for recovering heritage training activities and cooperation activities between countries.

Promoter of the Centre for Conservation and Restoration of Atlas and Subatlas Architectural Heritage (CERKAS) and member of the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), Architects Without Borders-Spain and ICOMOS-Morocco, his professional career has been closely linked to international cooperation as one of the keys for recovering heritage…’

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