Hassan Fathy

Hassan Fathy (Egyptian Arabic: حسن فتحي; March 23, 1900 – November 30, 1989) na he be noted Egyptian architect wey pioneer appropriate technology give building insyd Egypt, especially by he dey work make he reestablish de use of adobe den traditional mud construction as dem oppose to western building designs, material configurations, den lay-outs. Na dem recognize Fathy plus de Aga Khan Chairman's Award for Architecture insyd 1980.

 Ein life matter 
Na dem born Hassan Fathy insyd Alexandria to a Middle Class Upper Egyptian family.El-Rashidi, Yasmine (2000), Remembering 'the Master', Al-Ahram, retrieved 16 September 2017 He study den train as an architect insyd Egypt, wey he graduate insyd 1926 from de King Fuad University (now Cairo University).Hassan Fathy - Biliotheca Alexandrina Fathy marry Aziza Hassanein, sisto of Ahmed Hassanein. Na he be influence by Upper Egyptian den simple rural architecture, he design a villa plus de southern style give ein wifey along de Nile insyd Maadi, wich na dem later destroy make e make way give de new corniche. Na he sanso design ein bro ein mausoleum (1947), along Salah Salem, insyd Neo-Mamluk style.

 Death 
Hassan Fathy die of natural causes for November 30, 1989, at ein home insyd Cairo, Egypt.

 Collection 
Dem house Hassan Fathy ein entire archive wich dey include ein architectural plans, photographs den documents for de Rare Books and Special Collections Library at de American University insyd Cairo.' De collection dey include around 5000 architectural plans, 15,000 photographs den ein correspondences, writings den oda collected papers den materials.

 Publications 
Hassan Fathy get a number of publications. Ein first book Architecture for the Poor Archived 2022-01-17 at the Wayback Machine na dem initially publish am by de Egyptian Ministry of Culture insyd 1969 under de title Al-Gurna: A Tale of Two Villages.

Der sanso be a growing number of books about Hassan Fathy. De list dey include:

 El-Wakil, Hassan Fathy dans son temps, Infolio, 2013   (edited volume)
 El-Wakil, L. 2018. Hassan Fathy: an architectural life Archived 2022-01-24 at the Wayback Machine. The American University in Cairo Press, New York; Cairo (edited volume)
 Damluji, S. and Bertini, V., 2018. Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia. London: Laurence King.
 Dávid, Dóra and Vasáros, Zsolt (2020) Publications of the Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor in Cairo 2018-2019. Current Research of the Hassan Fathy Survey Mission in Egypt. Project Report. Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design and Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor in Cairo, Budapest and Cairo.


 References 

 Bibliography 



 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.

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 External links 
Wikimedia Commons get media wey relate to Hassan Fathy.

  (free fulltext)
 Digital collection of Hassan Fathy's architectural drawings
 Fathy's the Father of Sustainable Architecture in the Middle East
 Biography and images of Fathy's architecture
 Picture gallery from Hassan Fathy's project "New Baris" in Kharga Oasis, Egypt at Remains.se


Category:1900 births
Category:1989 deaths
Category:Human
Category:Egyptian people
Category:20th-century Egyptian architects
Category:Appropriate technology advocates
Category:Architecture insyd Egypt
Category:Cairo University alumni
Category:Egyptian nationalists
Category:Modernist architects
Category:People wey komot Alexandria
Category:Academic staff of de College of Fine Arts in Cairo
Category:Egyptian architects