Hassan Fathy - An Architectural Life

Informationen zum Autor Leïla el-Wakil is professor of the history of architecture and architectural conservation at the University of Geneva. Klappentext 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. Contributors: Leila el-Wakil, Camille Abele, Jo Abram, Rémi Baudou, Ahmad Hamid, Nadia Radwan, Samir Radwan, Ola Seif, Jessica Stevens-Campos, Mercedes Volait, Nicholas Warner. Vorwort A beautifully illustrated study of the life and times of the legendary Egyptian architect Zusammenfassung 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. Contributors: Leila el-Wakil, Camille Abele, Jo Abram, Rémi Baudou, Ahmad Hamid, Nadia Radwan, Samir Radwan, Ola Seif, Jessica Stevens-Campos, Mercedes Volait, Nicholas Warner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Leïla 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 Leïla 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 Leïla 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 Leïla 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 wi...

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• Authors: Leila El Wakil, Leila el-Wakil
• Assisted by: Leila el-Wakil (Editor), Leïla el-Wakil (Editor)
• Publisher: American university pr cairo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2018
• EAN: 9789774167898
• ISBN: 978-977-416-789-8
• No. of pages: 412
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Egypt, Middle East