Work
Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt
Explore in the Atlas →Fathy's account of the New Gourna experiment argues that vernacular materials, traditional craft and community participation, not industrial imports, offer a humane and sustainable architecture for the rural poor.
Dwelling Collectivity Settlement Tectonics Climate
Details
- Type
- Text
- Location
- Chicago
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalIslamic mena
Connections
- exemplifies Vernacular Architecture
- articulates Appropriate Technology
- articulates Critical Regionalism
Referenced by
- Hassan Fathy authored
Sources
- Hassan Fathy. Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt. University of Chicago Press, 1973.
- UChicago Press. n.d.. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3641441.html.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/architecture-for-the-poor/. Accessed July 17, 2026.