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Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Phoenix Books)

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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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    University of Chicago Press
  4. Fecha de publicación
    15 Diciembre 2000
  5. Idioma
    Inglés
  6. Dimensiones
    9.1 x 5.43 x 0.8 pulgadas
  7. Número de páginas
    366 páginas
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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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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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  • Editorial ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press (15 Diciembre 2000)
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
  • Tapa blanda ‏ : ‎ 366 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226239160
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226239163
  • Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 9.1 x 5.43 x 0.8 pulgadas
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Genius!
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 25 de julio de 2015
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    Great book--Fathy is a genius, and the world needs to pay attention to his message and building methods. If you are interested in dry climate architecture, working in developing countries, building with adobe and project management you need to read this book.
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    5.0 de 5 estrellas Good book.
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 30 de junio de 2020
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    Good book on the subject. I love this stuff.
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  • Sue Wilcox
    5.0 de 5 estrellas An economic revolution using mud
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 9 de abril de 2002
    'Architecture for the Poor' by Dr Hassan Fathy
    Sometimes a book is so ahead of its time it can sink beneath the waves before it's appreciated. Such a book was 'Architecture for the Poor', written in 1969 and originally published by the Ministry of Culture in Cairo. Written with the help of a fellowship from the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs it was published in America by the University of Chicago in 1973 and in a second impression in 1976. But even then it was only taken up by the fringes of the solar energy movement as a neat idea for a different culture and climate. Currently its out of print. The author died in 1989 having received some praise in his home country of Egypt but having seen no actions to take up his ideas for helping peasants take control of their lives by taking charge of the creation of their homes and communities.
    Dr Fathy was officially an architect but his talents as an amateur anthropologist, sociologist, psychologist, inventor, and economist are what make him great. His holistic approach to solving the housing problems of a poverty level community (and his vision to see how they could be applied to a whole country) takes in the gamut from reviving the craft of mud brick making (along with the traditional masonry building of vaults and domes to roof simple mud structures) through to solving the problems of parasitic worm infections that debilitate entire populations infected through their water supply systems. Every aspect of village life receives his attention: how to adapt an Austrian heating system to make a cooking stove more efficient, how to share a house with cows more hygienically, where to do laundry, how to build a better school, how to provide an alternative income from tomb robbing for the peasants, and how to tactfully delouse peasants using the luxury of a Turkish bathhouse rather than the chilly chemicals of a government mandated cold shower.
    His appreciation that some inefficiencies are functional within a society makes the changes he does make even more impressive. Fetching water from the village pump in water jars is one of the few occasions a girl has to be seen out in public in Moslem society. Providing running water to every house would derail the marriage process within that society. However he is happy to create plumbing inside the home ? running pipes to the kitchen from rooftop storage jars across the middle of rooms, so if they leak the occupants will have to fix them not ignore the drips until the wall is eroded. Fathy's changes are not just improvements to make a peasants life more like a modern westerners life ? that is impossible given the astonishingly low income of these people. They are changes that make life easier or healthier while striving to maintain traditions and strengthen society because they understand what is behind the tradition. For example splitting the village up into single home farmsteads would expose the individual families to roaming bands of thieves, so it's necessary to let houses huddle together for protection and for cows ? more valuable than children ? to stay inside the house.
    Yet this book is not just about practicalities of house or village building ? it's also about the need for beauty in the life of even the poorest amongst us. Dr Fahey's desire to restore an appreciation for craftsmanship to all members of society especially by restoring the ability of the poor to control the creation of their own homes is inspiring. An architect can help the process along only if he or she can learn to see life outside the urban world of modern design. This book shows how an architect with an academic education can be of some help to a peasant faced with grinding poverty but only if equipped with the ability to move to the world of that peasant and see how alien western technological solutions can be.
    Fahey's ideas are not just applicable to Egyptian society, reading this book made me aware of the similarities of problems faced by peoples in many middle eastern countries, particularly Afghanistan which is trying to rebuild itself and could use Dr Fahey's techniques to rehouse its population cheaply and empoweringly. It's even possible to extend his ideas to other hot dry climates such as Southern California, and the desert states of the US, to Mediterranean countries and to many parts of Africa, South America, and Australia. Wherever issues of building cost or those of insulation, shelter and energy efficiency in a hot dry climate need addressing Dr Fahey's solutions should be considered. This book needs to be reprinted; clamor for copies and see if we can make it the bestseller it should have been the first time around.
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  • K. Oliver
    4.0 de 5 estrellas Egypt's Precursor to Habitat for Humanity!
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 30 de abril de 2013
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    This book provides a good look at how very poor rural peoples can have agreeable housing made with materials literally dug up from their surroundings. Truly, these good houses are "dirt cheap!"
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  • Niti Desai
    5.0 de 5 estrellas A brilliant and revealing study
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 25 de diciembre de 2012
    My girlfriend Niti (now my wife) had given me this book almost two years ago, mentioning that this was her favorite book. I'll admit, I couldn't make it through the first fifty pages, since the technical details were lost on me, being an accountant. However, the book struck a chord with her, since she is an architect and felt drawn to the topic of helping the poor with affordable housing. So, as a Christmas gift to her, I decided to give this another go.

    Mr. Fathy's journey through Egypt starts off with one endeavor - how do you build a sustainable home for a poor peasant family? As he answers that question with the rediscovery of ancient building techniques (using mud bricks) he realizes that the peasant's plight is not a monolithic problem with housing, but also one that is tied to education, employment, and public health. Fathy courageously takes on all of these issues, realizing that he must not simply view himself as an architect of homes.

    His main focus is on the village of Gourna, and building a sustainable village for the Gournis, where they will have schools for their children, a vibrant apprenticeship program for enabling employment, and access to clean water (the part on Bilharzia was especially fascinating). Through his journey, he meets obstacles and allies in this process. The most baffling aspect of this book is the government bureaucracy that hobbles Mr. Fathy's experiment from its inception.

    I recommend this read for anyone seeking to work internationally in foreign aid or disaster relief. It speaks volumes about the good and bad roles that a government can play in speeding up a well-intentioned project. The book also teaches great lessons in the merits of learning the culture and habits of a people before assuming to know what is best for their society. The technical aspects of this book were a bit difficult for me to get through, but most of that is left in the Appendix at the end, so that it does not trip up the layman (like me).

    Merry Christmas, Niti.
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  • Human2Being
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Fahy's work nnearly started "a movement"
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 21 de junio de 2013
    Upon graduation from Cornell architecture school in 1970 I happened upon this book in the Tompkins County Public Library - that's right. Not the university's architectural libe. It changed my life considerably. There I was, awash, so to speak -- I felt I had studied hard for those five years and that I had mastered so much -- so what next?
    I had no idea. But Hassan Fathy began this real life story as a young civil servant in the municipal buildings offices. (not much of a future in that ;-) His visits to neighborhoods where the public monies were being spent were revealed to him as modern, expensive housing that also would be nearly impossible for its new, poor, inhabitants to maintain!
    By rediscovering the traditional ways of building just as the aging craftsmen were dying with its secrets, he recovered and put to use these thousand year old skills.
    Although all of his advances did not survive bureaucratic procedures, enough did so that a new young generation of architects, garbage recyclers and activists for community wellness succeeded Hassan Fathy and carried on his work -- putting the building of neighborhoods back into the hands of the people themselves.
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  • Omeima Khidir
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Five Stars
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 10 de septiembre de 2015
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  • Brian Ardron
    5.0 de 5 estrellas A man I much admire for his work and persistence ...
    Calificado en Reino Unido el 30 de marzo de 2015
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    A man I much admire for his work and persistence. He is an inspiration to others as he shows how to use the past in a sustainable way without resorting to highly dubious technology.
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  • David Kendal
    4.0 de 5 estrellas Interested read
    Calificado en Reino Unido el 10 de noviembre de 2022
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    Not finished yet but enjoying descriptions and illustrations surrounding all of the topics covered in the book. Fathy is a very forward thinking architect, even when the past had been forgotten about.
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