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	Adobe Alliance - Hassan Fathy
		HASSAN FATHY, the Egyptian architect and poet, environmentalist and planner, died at his house in Cairo on November 30th, 1989.
		Fathy's commitment was to his "ideal clients: the economic untouchables," who live outside the cash economy and to "the billions throughout the world condemned to a premature death for lack of adequate shelter."
		Hassan Fathy is best known for devising and promoting in arid areas the social organization of public housing built cooperatively by the owner-dwellers, with the guidance of the architect and under the supervision of craftspeople, using local -- preferably free -- materials such as earth, reed, straw or stone.
	www.adobealliance.org /hassan-fathy (333 words)

	Right Livelihood Award: 1980 - Hassan Fathy
		Hassan Fathy, born in Alexandria in 1900, became one of the outstanding architects of his generation in Africa, demonstrating that it is possible to build for the poor and teaching people to build for themselves.
		Fathy taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cairo University and served as head of its Department of Architecture.
		Fathy worked closely with the people to tailor his designs to their needs.
	www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/fathy.htm (250 words)

	Egypt State Information Service-Summer 1996
		Hassan Fathy, however, did not like to work in such way, so he tendered his resignation in 1930 after 4 years straight of working in those local councils, returning back to Cairo where he met the Plastics Art School headmaster.
		From that time on Hassan Fathy inaugurated his work as a teacher in the faculty of plastic arts in Zamalek, Cairo until 1946 when he had the chance to design buildings in his own village near to El Mansura city.
		In 1946 Hassan was commissioned to tailor the architecture design of El Karna village located in the west bank of Luxor city to rehouse its indigenous people, as its houses were on the top of invaluable Pharaonic monuments.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Pub/magazin/summer96/110201000000000010.htm (1184 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Legacy of Hassan Fathy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hassan Fathy's research and principles, his publications and built projects—though they dated back to the 1940's—became known to western architects only in 1969, and it cannot be said that they have been fully absorbed, let alone widely embraced, even now, a generation later.
		Fathy looked at mashrabiyyah screens and found that they were not only decorative and good at soaking up the glare from the sun, but also that they had hydrometric properties, for the wood soaks up humidity, too.
		Fathy used adobe bricks, he used stone, and so did I. But these days I use fired red bricks because the cost of firing is nothing compared to cost of mud bricks.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199904/the.legacy.of.hassan.fathy.htm (6789 words)

	Hassan Fathy Information
		Hassan Fathy (Arabic: حسن فتحى) (1989-1899) was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick (or adobe).
		Fathy was recognized with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1980.
		Hassan Fathy, who was born in Alexandria in 1900 and died in Cairo in 1989, is Egypt's best known architect since Imhotep.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hassan_Fathy (577 words)

	Fathy Hassan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fathy, Hassan (1900-1989), Egyptian architect, the focus of whose work was on providing housing and urban environments for the poor, chiefly in...
		Hassan Fathy (1899-1989) (Arabic : حسن فتحى) was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud...
		Hassan Fathy (1980) Egypt - Laureate Deceased "...for saving and adapting traditional knowledge and practices in building and construction for and with the poor.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Fathy_Hassan.html (208 words)

	An Architecture For People: The Complete Works of Hassan
		Hassan Fathy was a remarkable man: artist, antiquarian and social reformer to the world's poor.
		Steele admirably describes and records how Fathy's architectural and social ideas were based at first upon his colonial education, and only later moulded by a deep knowledge of his country's long history and in particular its architecture, which had often been controlled by mathematics and mystical geometries.
		In New Mexico, Fathy's mud vaults and domes had to comply with strict American building codes; adobe, which had for centuries been used in the region, was classed as 'unstable' and he was required to protect it from the weather with a concrete skin.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-20633901.html (938 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Legacy of Hassan Fathy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hassan Fathy's research and principles, his publications and built projects—though they dated back to the 1940's—became known to western architects only in 1969, and it cannot be said that they have been fully absorbed, let alone widely embraced, even now, a generation later.
		Fathy looked at mashrabiyyah screens and found that they were not only decorative and good at soaking up the glare from the sun, but also that they had hydrometric properties, for the wood soaks up humidity, too.
		Fathy used adobe bricks, he used stone, and so did I. But these days I use fired red bricks because the cost of firing is nothing compared to cost of mud bricks.
	saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199904/the.legacy.of.hassan.fathy.htm (6789 words)

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		Fathy sought to empathize with their lifeworld and to find architectural means whereby the new village would sustain their traditional way of life yet at the same time make life better by drawing on sustainable technology.
		Steele's book is a tribute to Fathy as a compassionate designer and as a master craftsman who held strongly to traditional values and beliefs at a time when the historical amnesia and standardization of Modernist architecture dominated.
		Fathy was also heavily involved in Doxiades’ City of the Future Project, which sought to go beyond architecture and to invigorate the physical form of cities using methods derived from the biological, ecological and anthropological sciences.
	www.arch.ksu.edu /seamon/Fathy.htm (1426 words)

	Hassan Fathy, Architect, 89 - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LEAD: Hassan Fathy, an Egyptian architect who championed the use of indigenous construction techniques to build housing for the world's poor, died Thursday in Cairo, the Associated Press reported.
		Hassan Fathy, an Egyptian architect who championed the use of indigenous construction techniques to build housing for the world's poor, died Thursday in Cairo, the Associated Press reported.
		Fathy wrote ''Architecture for the Poor,'' which became a standard classroom text and inspired a generation of builders trying to solve the problems of housing for the poor in the third world.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DC1E3DF931A35751C1A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print (108 words)

	.: RDSF - Hassan Fathy
		Only some years later, when Hassan Fathy commissioned us to be responsible for the restoration of the theatre in the village of New Gourna and to teach at the same time 20 young gournies how to build in vaults and domes, we dared to consider ourselves "Architects" in the International Institute of Appropriate Technology.
		Hassan Fathy insisted that at tea-time we would stop working and gather around the table, or the fire place in winter, when most visitors used to drop in.
		One day Hassan Fathy told us (Soheir and I) that he wishes us to be Bare-Footed Architects like the Bare-Footed Doctors of China and he predicted then with a big smile that if we do so we will end up being "High Booted" Architects with plenty of work.
	www.rdsf.com /WS/HF/hassan_fathy.asp (509 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section
		Hassan Fathy re-inspired the living art of adobe architecture, giving it a mission for the 20th and 21st centuries.
		Hassan Fathy had already worked for decades in his beloved Egypt before he designed and built for the homeless community of Gourna, Upper Egypt, which attracted international acclaim (Aucegypt p.1).
		Hassan Fathy died in 1989, but his legacy lives on in his disciples with ideas of their own.
	www.islamonline.net /English/ArtCulture/2004/08/article01.shtml (1605 words)

	Hassan Fathy
		As an accomplished violonist, Fathy was receptive to the compositional potential of musical harmonies in his work.
		From the beginning to the end, Fathy uses natural ventilation, orientation and local materials, traditional construction methods and energy-conservation techniques.
		Fathy carried out detailed studies of temperature and wind patterns : air scoops to reach high up to catch the desert winds and to funnel them down through a series of any led baffles that increased the velocity of the air
	www.kmtspace.com /kmt/fathy.htm (267 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Hassan Fathy: innovation and tradition
		In 1980 Fathy won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the citation making special reference to how his investigation of the "climatically efficient houses of Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo", with their ventilation systems of wind catches, lantern domes, courtyards and mashrabiya, had stimulated interest in these traditional and economical forms of climate control.
		These houses all incorporate trademark Fathy elements, such as the domes that he had adopted from vernacular Nubian architecture and the use of mashrabiya and other traditional materials, also reproducing the traditional Cairo house's inner courtyard and division of private and public domestic space.
		Hassan Fathy, un architecte égyptien, exhibition organised in collaboration with the American University in Cairo and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 4 December 2002 to 2 February 2003
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/617/cu5.htm (425 words)

	The Hassan Fathy Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The display, "Selections from the Hassan Fathy Archives," mounted on March 23, 2000 in the two exhibition areas of the RBSC Library was modest in scope.
		Its aim was not to make definitive statements about Hassan Fathy the architect, the planner, or the man, but to give viewers a sense of the rich range of the Archive and of the promise it holds for research.
		The Hassan Fathy Papers, when fully inventoried, will aid social scientists investigating African cities at the mid-century; urban-rural population trends; housing and development programs of the United Nations; and consumer-nation perceptions of petroleum-exporting countries.
	www.aucegypt.edu /hassanfathy/Archives/archives.html (350 words)

	CNN.com - arts & style - Fathy exhibit mirrors architect's diverse talents - September 15, 2000
		Hassan Fathy was both architect and amateur violinist.
		Fathy's books are arranged in one of the library's climate-controlled rooms just as researchers found them in his Cairo home.
		Fathy, who died in 1989, was a pioneering champion of creating affordable and livable housing for the poor.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/design/09/15/fathy.architecture.ap (843 words)

	References and Bibliography
		This article about a development of Fathy’s in New Mexico talks about the construction techniques they use to build the mud domes and vaults in the style of the Nubian on the Nile River.
		This article is from an issue of the journal entitled, "2/3 of Planet…Ill-housed." Fathy was featured because of his use of the natural, native, inexpensive material mud brick in his constructions.
		This article, written by James Steele, a scholar regarding Fathy, is a good overall investigation of the ideals and work of Fathy.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /arch499/nonwest/Hasson_Fathy/References.htm (445 words)

	Hassan Fathy - Archiplanet
		An Egyptian architect who devoted himself to housing the poor in developing nations, Hassan Fathy deserves study by anyone involved in rural improvement.
		Fathy worked to create an indigenous environment at a minimal cost, and in so doing to improve the economy and the standard of living in rural areas.
		Based on the structural massing of ancient buildings, Fathy incorporated dense brick walls and traditional courtyard forms to provide passive cooling.
	www.archiplanet.org /wiki/Hassan_Fathy (200 words)

	Egypt: An Update on Hassan Fathy's New Gourna
		Some 60 years ago, another was made to move the residents of Gourna to a new village designed by Hassan Fathy.
		The village designed by Hassan Fathy during the 1940s was situated on the main tourist road to the Valley of Kings and his idea was that the tourist coaches would come into the village and buy local crafts.
		The overall design is fantastic and I was particularly impressed by the mosque, which somehow reminded of the hypostyle hall at Karnak, having pillars and the same feeling of space.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/newgournaupdate.htm (1049 words)

	Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies - Intervention
		Hassan Fathy, in the course of his long career, broke new ground and returned to materials and methods rooted in antiquity and the soil of his native Egypt.
		• Gamal Amer is a disciple of famed Egyptian architect Hassan Fathi, known to the younger generation of architects simply as Hassan Bey.
		In the 1970s, Simone apprenticed to Hassan Fathy, renowned environmental architect and author of Architecture for the Poor and Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture, inspired by his use of earthen materials and his interest in reviving indigenous building techniques for owner-built cooperative housing.
	www.humiliationstudies.org /intervention/architecturefathy.php (552 words)

	UIA / LISTE DES RÉCIPIENDAIRES / MEDAILLE D'OR UIA 1984 / Hassan FATHY
		Hassan Fathy est né en Alexandrie, Egypte, le 23 mars 1900.
		Travaillant au coeur de ces problèmes, Fathy a cherché les racines culturelles de la construction et a amené les architectes, les artisans et les communautés, à participer ensemble à la création de leur habitat.
		Hassan Fathy s'est éteint au Caire, le 30 novembre 1989.
	www.uia-architectes.org /texte/france/1av1a.html (385 words)

	Hassan Fathy - Great Buildings Online
		Hassan Fathy was born in Egypt in 1899.
		He integrated a knowledge of the rural Egyptian economic situation with a wide knowledge of ancient architectural and town design techniques.
		We appreciate your suggestions for links about Hassan Fathy.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Hassan_Fathy.html (258 words)

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