Hassan Fathy : earth & utopia / Salma Samar Damluji & Viola Bertini.

By:

Damlūjī, Salmá Samar [author.]

Contributor(s):

Bertini, Viola [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781786272614
178627261X

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

NA1585.F37 D36 2018

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	MAIN General	AUE Library Collection	NA1585.F37 D36 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		14086067

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-360) and index.

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.

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