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Hassan Fathy and continuity in islamic architecture : the birth of a new modern /
This book provides new insights into Egytpian erchitect Hassan Fathy's profuse, pathbreaking design documents and built projects, while exploring the socioeconomic, environmental, psychological, and esthetic components of Fathy's work in the light of a quest for a new universal modernity f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cairo :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Cairo Scholarship Online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Hibernation of a Tradition
- Fabricating the Opposition between the Traditional and the Modern
- The Divorce between the Traditional and the Modern
- 2. The Institutionalization of Islamic Art and Architecture by the Aga Khan Foundation
- Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Western Attitudes to Muslim Culture
- Positive and Negative Influences of the Award on the Practice and Theory of Islamic Art and Architecture
- Limited Understanding of Modemity, Westernization, and Technology
- Absence of a Coherent Modern Muslim Worldview
- Distorted Teaching of Architecture of the Muslim World
- Effects on Contemporary Scholarly Thinking
- 3. Hassan Fathy: A Condenser of an Older Intelligence
- Discernment and the Process of Decision Making
- The Synthesis of the Delightful with the Functional
- The Social Contract and the Muslim Architect
- Modernity Neither Western nor Eastern
- Critical Regionalism: The Birth of a New `Modern'
- Note continued: 4. Toward a New Islamic Art and Architecture
- Approaches to Continuity Today
- Ephemeral Forms and Permanent Practices.