‘Architectural Design for Procuring Thermal Comfort’: Hassan Fathy, Nubia, and Desert Building

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Reynolds, Nancy Y. 2023. « ‘Architectural Design for Procuring Thermal Comfort’: Hassan Fathy, Nubia, and Desert Building ». International Journal of Islamic Architecture 13 (2): 361-91. doi:10.1386/ijia_00145_1, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/48802

Titre: ‘Architectural Design for Procuring Thermal Comfort’: Hassan Fathy, Nubia, and Desert Building
Créateur: Reynolds, Nancy Y. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Sujet: Architecture -- Oman Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Résumé: As part of an indigenous building movement in the Global South, the United Nations published two books by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900–89): one on building ‘for the poor’ and the other on passive cooling in vernacular architecture from hot environments. Using his correspondence, reports, designs, published writings, and built forms, this article tracks Fathy’s changing use of a crucial technique, mud-brick vaulting, that he learned in Nubia, an area of Egypt’s arid south largely destroyed by dams in the twentieth century. I show how Fathy mined Nubia rhetorically and materially to use, and later attempt to copyright, its residents’ ‘instinctive’ skills for living in hot arid lands. Over time, Fathy’s appropriations helped to transform Nubia’s vernacular morphology into a universal commons of desert and ‘Islamic’ forms, which enabled him to expand the geographic scope of his practice into the Arabian Peninsula in Oman and Saudi Arabia and into the southwestern United States.
Est une partie de: International Journal of Islamic Architecture Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
volume: 13
numéro: 2
pages: 361-391
Date: 2024
Langue: eng
doi: 10.1386/ijia_00145_1
issn: 2045-5895, 2045-5909
uri: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijia_00145_1

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