Fathy’s New Gourna was thus the government’s way to protect Egypt’s ancient heritage. The new village would replace Old Gourna, built on the archeological Pharaonic sites of Upper Egypt’s western shore where makeshift dwellings squatted directly over passageways to tombs, facilitating the systematic robbery that supported every household. He was asked to provide a home for a poor community of 7,000 people: the rural village of New Gourna partially completed between 19. Here Fathy recalls his commission from Egypt’s Department of Antiquities twenty years earlier. Hassan Fathy This text by modern Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1899-1989) is from his internationally popular 1969 book, Architecture for the Poor, which offered an alternative to International Style public housing: the legacy of colonialism. But this would mean nothing less than a whole new architecture. There must be neither faked tradition nor faked modernity, but an architecture that will be the visible and permanent expression of the character of a community. 1948Ĭhorale: Man, Society, and Technology: An Experiment in Rural Egypt Hassan Fathy Courtyards of houses in New Gourna, Egypt, c.
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