"Ader Fez has become a model and a reference for other cities in the Kingdom"

Le Matin: What is your assessment today of the 25 years since the creation of Ader Fez? Fouad Serrhini: I personally had the pleasure of joining the delegation for the safeguarding of the city of Fez as an architecture intern, then attending the creation of Ader as an intern as well in 1989, and joining it once my studies were completed in 1990. Ader really began its activities in January 1991 and it has evolved over 25 years with its difficulties, its constraints, but also its achievements and its significant contribution to the safeguarding of the Medina of Fez. I would like to specify that Ader was an institutional adventure. The Moroccan state had never created such a structure and the initiators were courageous and bold, because they did not have real visibility, particularly regarding its evolution and its financing. Ader was created in the legal form of a public limited company (…