Architecture for the poor : an experiment in rural Egypt /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fathy, Hassan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Edición:Paperback edition
Temas:
Community development > Egypt > Qurna.
Architecture, Domestic > Egypt.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Architecture, Domestic
Community development
Economic history
Social conditions
Egypt > Economic conditions.
Egypt > Social conditions.
Égypte > Conditions économiques.
Égypte > Conditions sociales.
Egypt
Egypt > Qurna
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Preface; 1 Prelude: Dream and Reality; 2 Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology; 3 Fugue: Architect, Peasant, and Bureaucrat; 4 Finale: Gourna Dormant; Appendix I: Cost Analysis of Labor and Rates of the Execution of Works; Appendix II: In-Service Training; Appendix III: Organization of Work; Appendix IV: Foundations; Appendix V: Brick Making; Appendix VI: Cost Analysis at the Moment when the Project Was Handed Over to the Ministry of Social Affairs; Glossary; Illustrations.

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