After years of living in Morocco, Algeria and Egypt, Manuel Alvarez Diestro dedicated a new series of photographs to North African architecture.
In particular, the satellite dishes that inhabit buildings. Sticking to facades or located on the roofs of buildings, plates add an extra layer to urban buildings. They are like parasitic living creatures that have attached themselves to structures.
Diestro notes in a North African characteristic that buildings reflect the lives of those who live in them. From the modernist structures of Algeria, influenced by the French architect Le Corbusier, to more modest buildings in Cairo, satellite dishes are becoming part of local architecture.
“The attitude of home residents to adding more and more satellite dishes adds a natural character to buildings. This improvisation takes us to new areas of expression, transforming facades into a triumph of rhythm and color. "
Rooftops of Casablanca, Morocco © Manuel Alvarez Diestro
