Books Details
Author : Viola Bertini Pages : 368 pages Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Language : ISBN-10 : 178627261X ISBN-13 : 9781786272614
Books Descriptions
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.?
