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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
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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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Mohammad Bilto Village of glacial

Fantasy
English
733 Words
No Age Recommendation
176
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Rubin, the twelve-year-old boy, who lives in a small village located in the regions of Mount Asteno. His father works as a Blacksmith. Meanwhile, his father wanted Rubin to help him Blacksmithing, but Rubin admired woodcutting in which he wanted to work with it. The village needs to prepare for the coming glacial winter. Saving food, wood, clothes, and warm shelter. The village could not take the winter no more, What happend next? **** This Book is very short for now, and will be updated soon time by time. **** [more]

Keywords: Fantasy, relationship, Village, Life, Battles, Wars, Blacksmith, Woodcutting

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Mary Russell Mitford Our Village

Fiction
English
38654 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855) was an English author and dramatist. She was [more]

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Mary Russell Mitford Our Village

Fiction
English
51647 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855) was an English author and dramatist. She was [more]

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MALA MUKHERJEE Forbidden Village

Horror
English
5380 Words
Ages 14 and up
3
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Centuries ago, an Emperor planted the seeds of immortality somewhere in the Yellow Mountain and a group of villagers were asked to protect until a great sage comes to claim them. However, the village headman consumed those seeds and bore the curse of living ceaselessly like an Undead, or Jiangshi. A group of foreign students stepped into his territory and countered unnatural events that unravelled the mysteries of the vampire village and those magical seeds. [more]

Keywords: Vampire, Jiangshi, curse

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