Summary: This fully illustrated volume represents the most comprehensive examination yet of the life and work of the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89), and the regional and international significance of his contribution to the lived environment. Eleven Egyptian and international scholars reveal the man, his milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept of social living and his fight for a humane model for affordable housing in tune with the environment, the application of these concepts in his numerous plans and buildings, his relations with the establishment, the extent of his influence, and the lasting legacy of his completed projects. Generously illustrated with archival and color photographs and the architect's own distinctive and beautifully decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.

Contents: 1. Education and training by Leïla el-Wakil - The apogee of studies the Western way. 2. A family passion for music, by Jessica Stevens-Campos. 3. The first commissions, by Leïla el-Wakil. 4. The first drawings. 5. The qa' house: the qaCairo houses in the years around 1950. 6. The arts and craftsmanship by, Nadia Radwan . 7. Colourful reveries, by Ola Seif . 8. Envisioning architecture, by Ahmad Hamid . 9. The great transformation of the Egyptian peasantry, by Samir Radwan . 10. The model izba, by Leïla el-Wakil. 11. New Gourna, by Leïla el-Wakil. 12. A narrative in the form of a sonata, by Jessica Stevens-Campos.

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