The Egyptian ‘Architect of the Poor’: Hassan Fathy And Why …
Sep 25, 2021 · Born in 1900 in Alexandria to an upper-middle class family, one notable peculiarity in Fathy’s six-decade career is that much of his work – including New Gourna, the village that became his best-known project – was neither urban, nor for the well-to-do.
Hassan Fathy - Spatial Agency
Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was an Egyptian architect and engineer who has been credited with bringing the vernacular architecture of Egypt to a wider audience, and for putting neglected traditional building systems to work for the poor.
New Gourna Village - World Monuments Fund
Designed by a pioneer of sustainable architecture, Hassan Fathy, the village of New Gourna in Luxor, or ancient Thebes, was commissioned by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities in 1945. The goal was to use local materials and techniques to relocate Old Gourna, a community of amateur archeologists that had sprung up near the ancient sites, and ...
HASSAN FATHY
More than any other 20th-century architect, Hassan Fathy raised the status of earth building among architects worldwide. Building in earth—adobe or pisé—has a long and honorable history, and in those parts of the world where stone and timber are scarce and expensive, earth has remained the most economical and widely used building material.
Hassan Fathy: Egypt’s architect of the poor - RTF - Rethinking …
He initiated his career as a teacher in the College of Fine Arts, Cairo University in 1930. A trilingual, cosmopolite, professor-architect-engineer, amateur musician, and dramatist who realized his utopia by becoming the architect of the poor.
Authority > Hassan Fathy - Archnet
Hassan Fathy devoted himself to housing the poor in developing nations and deserves study by anyone involved in rural improvement. Fathy worked to create an indigenous environment at a minimal cost, and in so doing to improve the economy and the standard of living in rural areas.
Sustainable Architecture And Local Construction Tradition Hassan Fathy ...
At the beginning of Hassan Fathy’s architectural career, many people doubted him and did not believed in his ideas about sustainability while others supported him, which slowly render him an...
Hassan Fathy Architectural Archives
From 1963 until 1965, he was Director of Pilot Projects in Ministry of Scientific Research in Cairo. Although he lived and worked for most of his life in Egypt, Fathy had frequent opportunities to travel and in the course of his career held several important international posts.
Focus : Hassan Fathy - archiDATUM
Hassan Fathy was an Egyptian architect, artist, and poet who had a tremendous impact on generations of architects and planners. In his lifetime he designed more than thirty projects including several villages for the poor.
Hassan Fathy - Right Livelihood
“For developing an ‘Architecture for the Poor’.” Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) from Egypt was one of the most outstanding architects of his generation in Africa. He demonstrated that it is possible to build for the poor and teach people to build for themselves.