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Author Fathy, Hassan.

Title Architecture for the poor : an experiment in rural Egypt / Hassan Fathy
Edition Paperback edition
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages, [111] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Foreword; Preface; 1 Prelude: Dream and Reality; 2 Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology; 3 Fugue: Architect, Peasant, and Bureaucrat; 4 Finale: Gourna Dormant; Appendix I: Cost Analysis of Labor and Rates of the Execution of Works; Appendix II: In-Service Training; Appendix III: Organization of Work; Appendix IV: Foundations; Appendix V: Brick Making; Appendix VI: Cost Analysis at the Moment when the Project Was Handed Over to the Ministry of Social Affairs; Glossary; Illustrations
Summary 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 Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings
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Subject Community development -- Egypt -- Qurna
Architecture, Domestic -- Egypt
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
Architecture, Domestic
Community development
Economic history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Egypt -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041275
Egypt -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041331
Subject Egypt
Egypt -- Qurna
Form Electronic book
Author Fathy, Hassan. Gourna.
ISBN 9780226239149
0226239144
0226239160
9780226239163
1282537172
9781282537170
9786612537172
6612537175