Overview

This fully illustrated volume represents the most comprehensive examination yet of the life and work of the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89), and the regional and international significance of his contribution to the lived environment. Eleven Egyptian and international scholars reveal the man, his milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept of social living and his fight for a humane model for affordable housing in tune with the environment, the application of these concepts in his numerous plans and buildings, his relations with the establishment, the extent of his influence, and the lasting legacy of his completed projects. Generously illustrated with archival and color photographs and the architect's own distinctive and beautifully decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.

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Author:   Leila El-Wakil
Publisher:   The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint:   The American University in Cairo Press
ISBN:  

9789774167898

ISBN 10:   9774167899
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   30 June 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Leila el-Wakil From `sidereal emptiness' to fertile ground: an `appropriate' architect `Guru' and polymath The right critical distance The state of the matter Multiple authors throwing light on Hassan Fathy 1. Education and training by Leila el-Wakil The apogee of studies the Western way 2. A family passion for music by Jessica Stevens-Campos Fathy, the musician and music lover Muhammad Fathy and oriental music Architecture through the prism of Western classical music 3. The first commissions by Leila el-Wakil The Talkha school project (1928) The early years, in collaboration with Ahmad Hosni Omar Project for the Azmi Building in Zamalek The Bosphore Casino Project for Hassan Pasha Madkour (1934) An exhibition pavilion for a tobacco company (1937) The other modern houses From the Hayat Muhammad Villa (1938) to the Hussein Farid izba (1941) 4. The early steps of a `romantic' in a liberal Egypt by Mercedes Volait The first drawings Egyptian modernism Revolutionising rural architecture 5. The qa`a and the Arab house by Leila el-Wakil The shift towards the `inward-looking' house: the qa`a, the centrepiece of the typology Fathy's art de vivre: refined ambiguity Cairo houses in the years around 1950 The Neo-Mamluk house of Tusun Abu Gabal Two villas for Aziza Hassanein (1938 and 1949) Compositional eclecticism 6. The arts and craftsmanship by Nadia Radwan Hassan Fathy: an `artist'? Fathy and Habib Gorgi: architecture without architects and schools without teachers Fathy and Ramses Wissa Wassef: art and craft at the heart of the model village The `Friends of Art and Life' and Hamed Said's `eco-studio' From Gourna to the `House of the Arts': Fathy among Artists 7. Colourful reveries by Ola Seif The pre-Gourna phase The Gourna phase Post-Gourna The paintings of a fantasist visionary, an architect or a dreamer? 8. Envisioning architecture by Ahmad Hamid 9. The great transformation of the Egyptian peasantry by Samir Radwan 10. The model izba by Leila el-Wakil Literary renewal Architectural renewal and model villages The Fathy family farms (late 1930s) Mud brick : the modern invention of a `heaven-sent' material The model farm experiments at Bahtim The Anhouri farm project at Mazghouna The writings of Mirrit Boutros-Ghali A model farm for the Fayoum Real Estate Corporation (1943) Izbat al-Basri (1945) Hafiz Afifi and Lulu'at al-Sahara (1950) 11. New Gourna by Leila el-Wakil The tools of the model village's invention New Gourna: the African Hellerau Using tradition to build the present The project's launch and failure The projects to save Gourna 12. A narrative in the form of a sonata by Jessica Stevens-Campos Prelude: Dream and Reality Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology Fugue: Architect, Peasant, and Bureaucrat Finale: Gourna Dormant 13. The villages of the fellahs by Leila el-Wakil Plans for an Institute for Ruralism The Kom Ombo rehousing project Harraniya: from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre (begun 1952) to Fathy's renovation project for the village (1964) New Bariz, the masterpiece brought down by the Six-Day War An attempted collaboration with the United Nations: the development of the oasis of Dar`iya The concept of the vegetable-garden village for Sohar The Sadat Village in Aswan 14. Choisy / Fathy: from constructive rationalism to bioclimatic architecture by Joseph Abram Tradition/Construction Physical environment / Materials Solar protection / Ventilation 15. Clarke / Fathy: reviving traditions by Nicholas Warner The antiquarian and preservationist The influence of Coptic architecture The Use of Mud Brick Buildings for archaeologists A new vernacular architecture? 16. Doxiadis Associates: the nerve centre by Camille Abele First encounters and exchanges The Doxiadis Associates firm Two characters face to face Greater Mussayib Residential blocks and a neighbourhood for New Baghdad (1959) Korangi: a model extension of Karachi (1959) 17. From ekistics to `appropriate urbanism' by Remi Baudoui From the countryside to the city: anthropology of the evolution of an active process Opera minora: the modern city of a Cairene dandy Reconsiderations between 1937 and the Doxiadis period: abandonment and rediscovery of the city and its implications The urban projects for Iraq and Pakistan The `City of the Future' (CoF) project The foundations of a theory of `appropriate urbanism': the case of the Arab city 18. Touristic villages by Leila el-Wakil Pioneering ideas for the North Coast A model tourist accommodation unit at Sidi Krier The Hammamet Conference (1974) The proposal to convert New Gourna into a touristic village Al-Mashrabiya Tourist Centre: a cultural centre for the capital The Nile Festival Village Developing cultural tourism in al-Fayoum and elsewhere A utopia for Sinai and a controversial posthumous project 19. A love of heritage by Leila el-Wakil Egyptian heritage institutions Contributing factors to an infatuation Tale of the Mashrabiya, an autobiographical story Nubia submerged: a World Heritage Site (1959-64) The Hell of Reinforced Concrete The confrontation with heritage leaders at Pistoia The International Conference on the History of Cairo Appraising Cairene heritage The mosque of Abbasiya 20. Between materiality and spirituality by Leila el-Wakil Symbolism versus anthroposophy The influence of the Groupe de Louxor's spiritual and esoteric studies Religious architecture in search of symbols 21. East and West by Leila el-Wakil The champions of modernity called into question Scientific research at the service of art `Appropriate' beauty An architect on a quest for appropriateness Acknowledgments Glossary Sources General bibliography

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[A] richly illustrated ode to Fathy's life and career. -- AramcoWorld

[A] richly illustrated ode to Fathy's life and career.-- AramcoWorld

"""[A] richly illustrated ode to Fathy's life and career.""— AramcoWorld"

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"Leila el-Wakil teaches the history of architecture and architectural conservation at the University of Geneva."""

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