Work
New Gourna Village
Explore in the Atlas →Hassan Fathy's mud-brick resettlement village, built with Nubian vaulting and local labour, is the foundational experiment in appropriate-technology, community-driven architecture for the global poor.
Dwelling Settlement Collectivity
Details
- Type
- Project
- Location
- Luxor, Egypt
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipOral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalIslamic mena
Connections
- articulates Appropriate Technology
- exemplifies Vernacular Architecture
Referenced by
- Hassan Fathy authored
Sources
- Hassan Fathy. Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt. University of Chicago Press, 1973.
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Safeguarding Project of Hassan Fathy's New Gourna Village. UNESCO, 2011.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "New Gourna Village." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/new-gourna/. Accessed July 17, 2026.