Fathy, Hassan (Personal Name)

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His Le pays d'Utopie, 1949: t.p. (Hassan Fathy)

LC data base, 11-8-84 (hdg.: Fathy, Hassan)

Ibrāhīm, ʻA. al-B. Ḥasan Fatḥī, 1987: t.p. (Ḥasan Fatḥī) p. 152 (b. 3/23/1900 in Alexandria; grad. of Jāmiʻat al-Malik Fuʼād al-Awwal, 1926; studied at the College of Fine Arts, 1930-1946; architect at al-Majālis al-Baladīyah, 1926-1930)

Wikipedia, viewed September 19, 2021 (Hassan Fathy (March 23, 1900-November 30, 1989); noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt; born in Alexandria; studied and trained as an architect in Egypt, graduating in 1926 from the King Fuad University (now Cairo University); began teaching at the College of Fine Arts in 1930 and designed his first adobe buildings in the late 1930s; involved in construction of New Gourna, on Luxor's West Bank, a resettlement of Gourna which was in the archaeological areas of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens; 1953 he returned to Cairo, heading the Architectural Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1954; 1957-1963 lived in Athens; 1963 returned to Cairo, moved to Darb al Labbana, near the Cairo Citadel, where he lived and worked the rest of his life; died in Cairo in 1989)