Description Hassan Fathy is Egypt's best-known 20th-century architect.
He was also a man of contradictions.
He came from a wealthy background and had a western-style training.
Yet he embraced traditional, vernacular forms, techniques, and materials and throughout his career promoted their use as part of a campaign to improve the conditions of Egypt's rural poor.
Earth & Utopia chronicles this lifelong commitment through personal interviews conducted by the author, photographs.
Laurence King Hassan fathy: earth & utopia. with original texts by hassan fathy, hardcover/salma samar damluji
