Research Catalog

Title

Hassan Fathy and continuity in Islamic architecture : the birth of a new modern / Ahmad Hamid.

Author

Ḥāmid, Aḥmad

Publication

Cairo ; New York : the American University in Cairo Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 206 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), plans; 25 cm.

Summary

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 for the 21st century.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Fathy, Hassan
• Fathy, Hassan > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Architects > Egypt
• Islamic architecture > Egypt
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Egypt
• Architecture > Egypt > History > 20th century
• Architecture, Modern > 21st century > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Architectural drawings
• History
• History.

Note

• "Dar el-Kutub no. 13822/09"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-[198] ) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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.

ISBN

• 9789774163418
• 9774163419

OCLC

• 686627540
• SCSB-10150709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library