4 James Steele, An Architecture for the People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy, London: Thames a (.).3 Diane Ghirardo, Architecture after Modernism, London: Thames and Hudson, 1996 (World of art), p. 1 (.). 2 Hassan Fathy, Gourna: A Tale of Two Villages, Cairo: Ministry of Culture and National Guidance, 19 (.).Best known-and widely discussed-in this respect is his project for the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, designed and built using local labour between 19 as part of a resettlement program aimed at relocating a peasant population living nearby. 1 In Fathy’s case, this resulted in a return to and the promotion of Nubian techniques of earth construction using mud-brick walls, and the use of key “traditional” spaces such as the square domed unit, the rectangular vaulted unit, the alcove covered with a half-dome and the courtyard. Curtis gives Fathy ample attention in the chapter entitled “Modernity, Tradition and Identity in the Developing World.” Curtis presents Fathy as one of those “Third World” architects who, as a critical response to industrialisation and its accompanying forms, turned to the “wisdom of tradition” and developed an alternative to an imported architectural modernism by drawing on vernacular building practices and morphologies. In his book Modern Architecture Since 1900, William J.R. Similarly, any survey book on twentieth century architecture reduces a discussion of the architectural production of Egypt to the work of one man: Hassan Fathy. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900,, London: Phaido (.)ġThe history of twentieth century architecture reveals a number of cases in which one designer almost completely dominates the narrative of a country’s architectural culture Alvar Aalto in Finland or Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil immediately come to mind.
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