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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy Hassan Fathy

Prophet of Earth Architecture

Architecture
English
19627 Words
Ages 14 and up
347
0

The Egyptian architect and master builder, Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was one of the first architects to found a new approach based on a conception of interpreting forms and masses from the past. He was unique in believing that this language could exist alongside that of an aggressively modern one that cut all ties with the past. In addition to Fathy’s tireless efforts to establish his traditional approach, he struggled to improve the housing and living environments of the poor, especially in the Third World. Fathy’s efforts were acknowledged by several awards, including the Chairman’s Prize, Aga Khan Awards for Architecture (1980), the Right Livelihood Award (1980) and the first Gold Medal of the International Union of Architects (1984). [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Earth Architecture, Mud, Culture, Tradition, Luxor, Egypt, Housing the Poor

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy Exile in Greece

Hassan Fathy in Athens

Architecture
English
8301 Words
Ages 14 and up
249
0

In 1957 the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy left Egypt for five years, going to Greece when Constantinos A. Doxiadis asked him to join his organisation in Athens. Although Fathy was recognised as a proponent of nationalistic attitudes, he left Egypt at the time when it had just achieved its independence and when the British occupation had ended. Fathy justified his move to Greece as an opportunity to achieve more professional freedom elsewhere. Frustrated in his efforts to build in Egypt, he believed that it was more influential to build than to teach and that a building anywhere in the world, “would speak louder than lectures; and that if some completed project attracted international attention, it would eventually have an effect on Egypt”. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Architecture, City of the Future, ekistics, Africa, Iraq Housing Programme, contemporaneity, Auto-Colonialism

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy VISION

Hassan Fathy in the Context of 20th Century Architecture

Architecture
English
13866 Words
Ages 14 and up
265
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Hassan Fathy is one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, whose works have had a widespread influence on the architecture of the Islamic world and whose ideas have extended to the Western world. This book focuses on the complexity of Fathy’s architecture and the richness and range of its theoretical intentions, as well as assesses his attitudes towards modernism and the International Style. The relationship of his philosophy to movements such as Post-modernism, community architecture and self-help building, eco-architecture and sustainability and tendencies such as neo-vernacular and earth building are also examined. In addition, important issues such as auto-colonialism and symbolism in architecture and critical responses to his works and philosophy are discussed. However, this is an essential reading that explores and reveals the significance of Fathy’s approach while placing him within the wider perspective of twentieth-century architecture. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Modern, Postmodern, Twentieth Century Architecture, Community, Earth

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy THE VILLAGE

THE FALL AND RISE OF NEW GOURNA

Architecture
English
6921 Words
Ages 12 and up
314
1

New Gourna village is the most famous and well-documented project designed by the late Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. While some other villages were realised by the architect, only this work achieved immediate fame, and it has, in many respects, remained a controversial project ever since. Fathy’s experiment in New Gourna village inevitably fused his architecture with the meaning of the human situation. The lessons gained from new Gourna were to be seen in its architectural vocabulary, especially in the assembly of vaults and domes. These elements demonstrated the chief virtues of mud-brick such as economy of materials and equilibrium of forms and masses. These virtues were not clear to the modern architects in Egypt who, by contrast, found them disturbing and not representing good building. New Gourna planning approach unlocked a very important door for architects and planners to create dynamic town planning elements, whose flexibility could allow a new spectrum of possibilities for living. Fathy’s philosophy and the difficult questions he addressed in New Gourna provided the fundamental links between him and other modern architects as well as highlighting key aspects of his contribution to twentieth century architecture. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, New Gourna, Village Planning, Vernacular Architecture, Built Environment, Mud Brick, Earth Architectecture, Community Architecture, Self-help Buildings

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy The Guru

Hassan Fathy's Late Career

Architecture
English
14697 Words
Ages 14 and up
139
0

Hassan Fathy returned from Athens to live in Cairo in 1962. He was thoroughly depressed at the thought of having to live among the noisy, crowded streets of modern Cairo. However, he lived in a flat in the Aly Labib house, a Mamluk house built in the 18th century and was known as Beit Al-Fan (home of the art). Not surprisingly, Fathy’s belief in the value of tradition was still strong. His primary concern was to develop his mud-brick style and the self-help building approach, which he had been experimenting with since the mid-1940s. In the period between 1962 and 1967, Fathy experienced misfortune in realizing many projects. However, since 1967 until his death in 1989, Fathy’ traditional approach began to be appreciated and he was able to design and build many different residential projects as well as commercial ones. In the 1980, Fathy’s effort was acknowledged by many awards including, the United Nations Peace Medal, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and the first Gold Medal of the Union Internationale des Architects. In 1989, Fathy died in his 18th century Mamluk house, Cairo. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Cairo, Arab House, New Bariz, Dar Al-Islam, New Mexico, Nassif House, Jeddah, Kazerouni House, Shabramant, Tradition, Culture

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy Descendants

Hassan Fathy's Followers

Architecture
English
10044 Words
Ages 14 and up
262
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Hassan Fathy's (1900-1989) ideas and philosophy opened opportunities and became a source of inspiration for architects to recognize and appreciate their traditional architecture. The response to Fathy’s approach from architects in the Developing World differed from that of Western architects. When Fathy’s architecture began to be widely known from the 1970s onward, these architects were influenced by his works, not only because of their links to the vernacular, but also because of their associations with Islamic architecture. The common response of these architects to Fathy’s architecture was that they regarded his buildings as prototypes for the contemporary Islamic architecture of the Middle East as his traditional forms and techniques epitomize their national and regional features. On the other hand, the response of Western architects to Fathy’s architecture and ideas varied. While some architects admired the new possibilities of building domes and vaults with a primitive material such as mud, others were inspired by Fathy’s philosophy and his humanistic approach. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Followers, Tradition, Culture, Architecture, West-Non West Dialogue

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Roland Jalowietzki Der schlaue Kamelhirtenjunge Hassan

Fairy Tale
German
2032 Words
Ages 6 and up
106
0

Ein faszinierendes Märchen von einem Beduinenjungen, der durch seinen Einfallsreichtum ein ganzes Volk rettet und später eine Familie [more]

Keywords: Wüste, Beduinen, Kamele, Märchen, Hassan, Hassad, Gefährliche Wadis, Tourismus, Sandstürme, Wassermassen, Ertrinkungstod

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Frederick Marryat Pascha Abu Hassan und sein Wesir

Die Geschichten seiner Sklaven

Fiction
German
132585 Words
Ages 14 and up
386
2

Abu Hassan wird zum Pascha über Kairo und die umliegenden Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches ernannt. Zum WESIR machte er seinen Barbier Mustapha, der ihm unterwürfigst diente. Beide begaben sich spätabends und unerkannt auf die Straßen Kairos, stets auf der Suche nach neuen Geschichten zur Abendunterhaltung des arg gelangweilten Paschas. Dort belauschten sie die Gespräche zwischen herumlungernden Menschen. Wenn dabei Äußerungen fielen, die des Pascha’s Interesse weckten, wurde dem betreffenden Sprecher befohlen, gleich am nächsten Tag im Palast zu erscheinen, um näheres darüber zu erzählen. So gerieten in Kairo lebende Sklaven ins Blickfeld des Paschas, der großen Wert auf spannende Geschichten legte. Wurde diese Forderung nicht erfüllt, drohte dem Erzähler die Bastonade, schlimmstenfalls sogar die Enthauptung. In diesem Buch wird Licht geworfen auf die Verhältnisse im Osmanischen Reich zu jener Zeit, die von Habgier, Intrigen, Geltungssucht und Grausamkeiten geprägt wurde, insbesondere auf das totalitäre, gesetzlose Gebaren der Sultane, Kalifen, Paschas sowie ihrer Vasallen. [more]

Keywords: Pascha, Kalif, Sultan, Marryat, Osmanisches Reich, Seeabenteuer, Orientalische Erzählungen, Captain Marryat

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