(1899-1989), noted Egyptian architect, pioneered appropriate technology for even building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish a utilise of mud brick (or adobe).

Fathy trained as an designer around Egypt, graduating around 1926 from either a University of King Fuad I personally (okay, a University of Cairo). He designed his number one mud brick buildings in the late 1930s. He held many government positions & was appointive head of the Architectural Division of the Faculty of Art, Cairo, inside 1954.

Fathy was recognized by owning a Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1980.

Fathy wore ancient project methods & materials. He integrated the cognition of the rural Egyptian economic situation by using the wide cognition of ancient architectural & town project techniques. He trained local denizen to make their have materials & build their have buildings.

Climatical conditions, public health considerations, & ancient craft skills as well affected his project decisions. According to a structural massing of ancient buildings, Fathy incorporated heavy brick bulwarks & traditional court forms to provide passive voice cooling.

Sources

Hassan Fathy. Architecture for the Unfortunate : An Experiment within Rural Egypt. University of Chicago Click, March 1976. ISBN 0226239160

Hassan Fathy, Walter Shearer (Editor). Natural Energy & Common Architecture : Information & Examples, Using Information to Hot Arid Climates. University of Chicago Click, September 1986. ISBN 0226239179

James Steele. An Architecture for Humans : A Complete Works of Hassan Fathy. Whitney Library of Project, October 1997. ISBN 0823002268