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Hassan Fathy

1900–1989 · Modernism · Egypt

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Hassan Fathy, in Cairo
Dimitri Papadimos personal archive with his son Ioannis D.Papadimos · Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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Advanced low-cost, climate-responsive architecture using local materials and community participation.

Key works

  • New Gourna Village

THE RETHINK

Hassan Fathy helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Hassan Fathy changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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