Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt by Hassan Fathy

Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Hassan Fathy

366 pages first pub 1969 (view editions)

nonfiction art informative slow-paced
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"Architecture for the Poor" describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fat...

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