Driss Kettani graduated from the National School of Architecture in Rabat in 2003 and founded Driss Kettani Architecte in 2005, after some collaborations and study trips. He has a constant interest in place, culture and inhabitants as an essential starting point for a reflection, a project.

 

This approach goes hand in hand with an imperative of modernity and contemporaneity, in a constant quest for creativity and meaning.

 

His work is part of an approach combining architectural rigour and research into the sensitive and poetic dimension of architecture. Architecture, being the reading canvas of our time, offering a living environment that expresses culture and high aspirations.

 

In 2006, he won the competition for the Taroudant University with his partners and friends Saad El Kabbaj and Mohamed Amine Siana. They also completed the Guelmim School of Technology in 2011. These two projects have been published in numerous international architectural magazines and have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Venice and Milan. Guelmim's project was also short-listed for the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture in 2016. His work was also distinguished by the Mimar Sinan Prize in Istanbul in 2016 and the Archmarathon Prize in Beirut in 2015. Other projects include schools, private residences, collective housing and several competitions.

 

Driss Kettani has published articles in architectural magazines and has lectured in Morocco, Italy, UAE, Lebanon, Tunisia, and France. He was a guest professor at Venice IUAV W.A.Ve workshop in 2014, 2019, and 2020, and is currently teaching at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco.