HASSAN FATHY AN ARCHITECTURAL LIFE

• Other Authors: El-Wakil, Leila (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York The American University in Cairo Press 2018
• Subjects: Fathy, Hassan; Fathy, Hassa > Criticism and interpretation; Egyptian architecture
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• Physical Description: 416 pages illustrations (some colour) 30 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9789774167898

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. Eleven Egyptian and international scholars reveal the man, his milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept of social living and his fight for a humane model for affordable housing in tune with the environment, the application of these concepts in his numerous plans and buildings, his relations with the establishment, the extent of his influence, and the lasting legacy of his completed projects. Generously illustrated with archival and color photographs and the architect's own distinctive and beautifully decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.