Customer Review: This is a Thames and Hudson coffee table book: readable text, good photography, lucid groundplans, and the binding is strong. Hassan Fathy's most available major text is Architecture for the Poor (Univ. of Chicago Press). Here is an excerpt from a brief article in Al-Ahram Weekly (19-25 Dec 2002,... more info
Customer Review: The content is more economic sided than I'd hoped but still a great introduction to the opportunity. I wish it had more practical engineering. I bought this book with the hope that it would aide me in the construction of vault style buildings here in in the southwest desert. I love the idea of the... more info
Customer Review: ISBN: 0312011407 (PB), ISBN: 0312013124 (HC), ISBN: 0856709182 (PB), and ISBN: 0856709212 (HC) only:
Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press, London/New York, 1988. Over 200 color & b/w illustrations, 1st edition, tall 4to, 149 pp. Introduction by A. Wahed El Wakil, 2 essays by Fathy... more info
Customer Review: This book has a traditional and philosophic view to the effects of environment on man and his architecture; this view could be affected by its authors, especially Hassan Fathy. Although "Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture: Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates"... more info
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