Main entry:

Hamid, Ahmed, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2010.

Description:

xxvii, 206 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Dar el-Kutub no. 13822/09"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9789774163418 (paperback)
9774163419 (paperback)

Subject:

Fathy, Hassan.
Fathy, Hassan Criticism and interpretation.
Fatḥī, Ḥasan 1900-1989
Fatḥī, Hasan.
Architects Egypt.
Islamic architecture Egypt.
Architecture Egypt History 20th century.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture Egypt Designs and plans.
Architectes Égypte.
Architecture islamique Égypte.
Architecture Égypte Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture islamique.
Architecture Égypte Dessins et plans.
Architects
Architecture
Architektur
Islamische Architektur
Moderne
Tradition.
Islamische Kunst.
Egypt
Ägypten

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Architectural drawings
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270769
Call No.: BIB 203611
Status: Available