Relationship between Vernacular Techniques and Modern Architecture Today In this era of tremendous technological innovation and urbanization, traditional vernacular construction expertise still has a lot to teach us. Modern architecture…
Hassan Fathy was an Egyptian Architect born into a middle-class upper Egyptian family in Alexandria on the 23rd of march in 1900. He graduated as an architect in 1926 from…
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989), Egypt’s “architect of the poor,” proved that mud brick could be modern: his New Gourna Village near Luxor (1946–52) revived Nubian vaulting and passive cooling decades before…