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The Beginning. The Hassan Fathy Survey Mission: 2015-2017

Vasáros, Zsolt (2020) The Beginning. The Hassan Fathy Survey Mission: 2015-2017. In: Current Research of the Hassan Fathy Survey Mission in Egypt 2016-2017. Publications of Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor in Cairo. Publications of Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor in Cairo, 2 (2). Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design and Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor in Cairo, Budapest and Cairo, pp. 58-97. ISBN 978-963-421-806-7

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Abstract

Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) is a role model for generations in architectural education. Survey works on twentieth-century architecture usually discuss his work; his famous New Gourna experiment laid the foundations for community-based construction and design in the mid-1940s. Nearly one thousand monographs, articles, publications, and dissertations have been published on the Egyptian architect. His prominence and legacy draws attention not only to twentieth-century Islamic architecture and Hassan Fathy’s special place in it, but also highlights his universal significance. The Faculty of Architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, with the help of Hungarian architects and students of architecture, launched an expedition to Egypt in the spring of 2015 to document Hassan Fathy’s remaining architectural heritage. Upper Egypt (Luxor, Garagous and Fares) is predominantly emblematic of his early work, while the distorted New Baris settlement is a sad memento of monumental mudbrick architecture, and Anwar Sadat’s presidential holiday house in Gerf Hussein is a significant example of Fathy’s late work.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > DT Africa / Afrika
N Fine Arts / képzőművészet > NA Architecture / építészet
N Fine Arts / képzőművészet > NX Arts in general / művészetek általában > NX0 Theory and philosophy of art / művészetelmélet
N Fine Arts / képzőművészet > NX Arts in general / művészetek általában > NX2 Artistic periods and styles / művészeti korszakok és stílusok
N Fine Arts / képzőművészet > NX Arts in general / művészetek általában > NX4 Art history and criticism / művészettörténet, műkritika
Depositing User: Prof. Zsolt Vasáros
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2020 09:28
Last Modified: 29 Sep 2020 09:40
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/115428

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