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Hassan Fathy : earth & utopia

Damlهujهi, Salmâa Samar, author, Bertini, Viola, author

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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.

• Publisher: Laurence King
• Subject: Fathy, Hassan Criticism and interpretation. / Fatٍhهi, ٍHasan 1900-1989 / Fathy, Hassan. / 1900-1999 / Architecture Egypt History 20th century. / Sustainable architecture Egypt. / Architecture. / Sustainable architecture. / Egypt.
• ISBN: 9781786272614, 178627261X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NA1585.F37 D36 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE