[PDF] Hassan Fathy eBook

Author : Salma Samar Damluji
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781786272614

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Hassan Fathy is Egypt's best-known 20th-century architect. He was also a man of contradictions. He came from a wealthy background and had a western-style training. Yet he embraced traditional, vernacular forms, techniques, and materials and throughout his career promoted their use as part of a campaign to improve the conditions of Egypt's rural poor. Earth & Utopia chronicles this lifelong commitment through personal interviews conducted by the author, photographs, and drawings from the Hassan Fathy archives, and Fathy's own writings on the subject, many of which are published for the first time. This beautiful, fascinating, and scholarly book will be essential reading for students, academics, and general readers interested in Fathy, and the development of Arab and vernacular architecture, earth construction, architecture for the poor, and sustainability.

Author : Hassan Fathy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226239144

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Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.

Author : James Steele
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780756757960

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Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy's reputation for a modern & humane architecture has grown to cult status. Architects worldwide are recognizing that his revival of ancient mud-brick building techniques has begun to revolutionize modern thinking, not just in Egypt & in the 3rd World, but throughout the developed world -- where sustainability, energy conserv'n. & the responsible use of natural resources have all become vital concerns. Fathy's buildings are found all over the world. Steele's research in Cairo & in Greece uncovered many previously undocumented projects. New material -- photos, plans & Fathy's gouaches -- is included, along with a comprehensive illustrated chronology of his work.

Author : Leïla El-Wakil
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789774167898

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This fully illustrated volume represents the most comprehensive examination yet of the life and work of the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89), and the regional and international significance of his contribution to the lived environment. Generously illustrated with archival and color photographs and the architect's own distinctive and beautifully decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.

Author : Hassan Fathy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
ISBN :

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The culmination of a lifetime's design practice and environmental study, Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture presents a master architects' extraordinary insights into the vernacular wisdom of indigenous architectural forms that have evolved in hot arid climates.

Author : James Steele
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1991-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780856709180

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Shows a variety of projects by the Egyptian architect, explains how he uses traditional Middle-Eastern motifs, and discusses how his designs meet the needs of rural Egypt

Author : Ronald Rael
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568987675

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"The ground we walk on and grow crops in also just happens to be the most widely used building material on the planet. Civilizations throughout time have used it to create stable warm low-impact structures. The world's first skyscrapers were built of mud brick. Paul Revere Chairman Mao and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth houses at various points in their lives and several of the buildings housing Donald Judd's priceless collection at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas are made of mud brick." "While the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the contemporary tradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth mud brick compressed earth cob and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Chivvis Moore
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1634139534

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An American carpenter travels to Egypt to meet the architect Hassan Fathy, the author of the book Architecture for the poor, and spends 16 years in Egypt and Palestine immersing herself in Arab and Muslim culture.