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008 221004s1973 xxuaeo|gr|||| 00| 0 eng d
020 _a0226239160
040 _aMinisterio de Vivienda y Urbanismo
_cCEDOC - MINVU
082 _aHAR-FAT
_bAR673
100 1 _aFathy, Hassan
_914149
245 1 0 _aArchitecture for the Poor :
_ban experiment in rural Egypt /
_cHassan Fathy
260 _aChicago, Estados Unidos :
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c1973.
300 _a232 p. :
_bil. byn., fot. byn., planos.
505 _aForeword / William R. Polk -- Preface -- Prelude: dream and reality -- Paradise lost: the countryside -- Mud brick: sole hope for rural reconstruction -- Mud for roofing, bahtim: trial and error -- Nubia: survival of an ancient technique of Vaulting -- The Nubian Masons at work: first successes -- Ezbet el Basry: Iblis in Ambush -- A Tomb Robbery Begets a Pilot Housing Project -- Birth of New Gourna: the site -- Man, society and technology -- Architectural character -- The process of decision making -- Tradition's role -- Saving individuality in the village -- Traditional village crafts restores -- The us of mud brick an economic necessity -- Reestablishment ofthe "trinity": owner, architect, and craftsman -- Vernacular architecture of Old Gourna -- Change with constancy -- Climate and architecture -- Orientation of houses determined partly by sun, partly by wind -- The Malkaf, or Wind Catch -- Society and architecture -- Kinship structure and local custom -- Socieconomic considerations -- Rural crafts in Gourna -- The plan of New Gourna -- Public service buildings and amenities -- The peasant house -- Combating Bilharzia -- Gourna, a pilot project -- The cooperative system -- In-service training -- Gourna not an end in itself -- A stillborn experiment, Mit-el-Nasara -- National program for rural reconstruction -- Fugue: architect, peasant, and Bureaucrat -- Finale: Gourna Dormant.
942 _2CDU
_cMN
999 _c25432
_d25428