Hassan Fathy : an architectural life = Ḥasan Fatḥī /
Hassan Fathy : an architectural life = Ḥasan Fatḥī /
Ḥasan Fatḥī
edited by Leïla El-Wakil.
- 411 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Some text in Arabic.
9789774167898
Fathy, Hassan.
Fathy, Hassan--Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture--History--Egypt--20th century.
Architecture--History--Egypt--20th century--Designs and plans.
Architecture, Egyptian.
--Reading book
720.92 / HAS
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Some text in Arabic.
9789774167898
Fathy, Hassan.
Fathy, Hassan--Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture--History--Egypt--20th century.
Architecture--History--Egypt--20th century--Designs and plans.
Architecture, Egyptian.
--Reading book
720.92 / HAS