Hassan Fathy
Earth & Utopia
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- Published: Oct 15 2018
- Pages: 368
- 337 x 255mm
- ISBN: 9781786272614











Hassan Fathy is Egypt’s best-known 20th century architect. He embraced traditional, vernacular forms, techniques, and materials and throughout his career promoted their use as part of a campaign to improve the conditions of Egypt’s rural poor.
Earth & Utopia chronicles this lifelong commitment through personal interviews conducted by the author, photographs, and drawings from the Hassan Fathy archives, and Fathy’s own writings on the subject, many of which are published for the first time.
This book will be essential reading for students, academics, and general readers interested in Fathy, and the development of Arab and vernacular architecture, earth construction, architecture for the poor, and sustainability.
About the author
About the author
Salma Samar Damluji is an architect and architectural consultant. She has published several books, including The Architecture of Oman (1998), The Architecture of The United Arab Emirates (2006) and The Architecture of Yemen (2007), and has curated a number of exhibitions in London.