There are a lot of folks that recommended this book. The book By Hassan Fathy Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Phoenix Books) it is quite good to read. He died in 1989 and is remembered to this day as a giant in world architecture. By Hassan Fathy Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Phoenix Books) PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad From reader reviews: Donna Bradford. معماري الفقراء المعماري المصري حسن فتحي شغل حياته دائما بالفقراء وبنى لهم قصورا من طين، استغل بيئته المحلية ليصل بها إلى العالمية /yAdUuLj7gaįathy went on to international fame as the Architect of the Poor, lecturing and consulting with the United Nations and the Aga Khan Foundation, which awarded him a specially-created Chairman’s Award for his lifetime achievements in architecture in 1980.įathy’s projects in Egypt continued to show his focus on function, history and environment, as he designed homes that honoured the needs of Egyptian families for privacy, functionality, and a modernist-inspired open airiness. The architecture of the house emerges from the dream this is why in villages built by their inhabitants we will find no two houses identical”. In this landmark book he wrote, “In Nature, no two men are alike … they will differ in their dreams. Twenty years later Fathy wrote Gourna: A Tale of Two Villages, republished in the west as Architecture for the Poor, which became a textbook for architecture students worldwide. Roof and dome of the mosque at Gourna seen from the minaret
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