Leïla el-Wakil, Hassan Fathy dans son temps

Abstract

The history of twentieth century architecture reveals a number of cases in which one designer almost completely dominates the narrative of a country’s architectural culture; Alvar Aalto in Finland or Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil immediately come to mind. Similarly, any survey book on twentieth century architecture reduces a discussion of the architectural production of Egypt to the work of one man: Hassan Fathy. In his book Modern Architecture Since 1900, William J.R. Curtis gives Fathy ample att...