Hassan Fathy
Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia
Salma Samar Damluji, Viola Bertini
Laurence King, October 2018
Hardcover | 10-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches | 368 pages | 450 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1786272614 | $85.00
Publisher Description:
Hassan Fathy is Egypt?s best-known 20th-century architect. 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 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.dDAB Commentary:
Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) is a household name to architects for one book he wrote about one project. Architecture for the Poor, first published in 1973 yet still in print, documents the Egyptian architect's attempt to build the New Gourna Village in Luxor in the mid-1940s. It -- or at least parts of it -- was required reading when I was in undergraduate architecture school for a number of reasons: Fathy's use of locally available materials and techniques (mud brick, mainly), his sustainable (environmental and social) desig...
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