New Gourna Village - Craft's Exhibition- Section Hassan Fathy was a trilingual professor-engineer-architect, amateur musician, dramatist, and inventor. He designed nearly 160 separate projects, from modest country retreats to fully planned communities with, and, markets, schools, theatres, and places for worship and recreation. These communities included many functional buildings such as laundry facilities, ovens, and wells. He utilized ancient design methods and materials, as well as knowledge of the rural Egyptian economic situation with a wide knowledge of ancient architectural and town design techniques.
Culture and Sustainability in Hassan Fathy Architecture. Principles of Hassan Fathy in dealing with sustainability. 'Architecture of the Poor' and read it.
He trained local inhabitants to make their own materials and build their own buildings. He began teaching at the College of Fine Arts in 1930 and designed his first adobe buildings in the late 1930s. Fathy gained international critical acclaim for his involvement in the construction of, located on 's West Bank, built to resettle the that operated in the and the.
This project was applauded in a popular British weekly in 1947 and soon after in a British professional journal; further articles were published in Spanish, French and in Dutch. In 1953 he returned to Cairo, heading the Architectural Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1954. Fathy's next major engagement was designing and supervising school construction for Egypt's. In 1957, frustrated with and convinced that buildings designed with traditional methods appropriate to the climate of the area would speak louder than words, he moved to to collaborate with international planners evolving the principles of design under the direction of. He served as the advocate of traditional natural-energy solutions in major community projects for and and undertook extended travel and research for the 'Cities of the Future' program in.
Returning to in 1963, he moved to Darb al-Labbana, near the, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He also did public speaking and private consulting. He was a man with a riveting message in an era searching for alternatives in, personal interactions, and economic supports. He left his first major international position, at the in Boston, in 1969 to complete multiple trips per year as a leading critical member of the architectural profession.
His authoritative book on Gourna, published in a limited edition in 1969, became even more influential in 1973 when it gained a new English title, 'Architecture for the Poor'. His participation in the first U.N. Conference in 1976 in which was followed shortly by two events that significantly shaped the rest of his activities.
He began to serve on the steering committee for the nascent and he founded and set guiding principles for his Institute of Appropriate Technology. In 1980, he was awarded the for Architecture and Urban Planning and the. He held several government positions and died in in 1989. Legacy Fathy has been called Egypt's best-known since. An appreciation of the importance of Fathy's contribution to world architecture became clear only as the twentieth century waned., considerations, and ancient skills also affected his design decisions. Based on the structural massing of ancient buildings, Fathy incorporated dense brick walls and traditional courtyard forms to provide passive cooling.
Fathy is also renowned for having revived the traditional. Conducted an oral history interview (C467/37) with Hassan Fathy in 1986 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library. Windcatchers in Egypt The are known in traditional architecture invented by Persian designers.
In the Neoislamic architecture they are recognized as the works of Hassan Fathy. In Egypt the windcatchers are known as 'Malqaf'. Personal life. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged. ( March 2017) Fathy married once, to Aziza Hassanein, sister of. He designed a villa for her along the Nile in, which was destroyed to make way for the.
He also designed her brother's mausoleum (1947), along Salah Salem, in. The children of his five brothers and sisters, aware of the obligation to preserve the heritage of their uncle, tried to make sure that the materials transmitting his ideals and his art will remain available in for the future benefit of that country. See also. References.
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University of Chicago Press. Steele, James (1997). An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy. Whitney Library of Design. Max Nobbs-Thiessen (2006) Contested Representations and the Building of Modern Egypt: The Architecture of Hassan Fathy (MA Thesis) Simon Fraser University. Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy, Hassan Fathy: The Unacknowledged Conscience Of Twentieth Century Architecture. A paper published in the International Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences IJBAS-IJENS Vol:10 Issue: 02, 10 April 2010.
Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy, Hassan Fathy: The Power of Belief. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2017. Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy, Hassan Fathy: The Language of Traditional Architecture. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2017. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to.