El discurso arquitectónico de Hassan Fathy Lo vernáculo desde una perspectiva moderna
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Moreno Moreno, María PuraResearch Group
Estrategas del Proyecto Arquitectónico y Sistemas CulturalesKnowledge Area
Proyectos ArquitectónicosPublication date
2018-11Publisher
Departamento de Composición de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)Bibliographic Citation
MORENO MORENO, María Pura. El discurso arquitectónico de Hassan Fathy Lo vernáculo desde una perspectiva moderna. Cuaderno de Notas, [S.l.], n. 19, p. 57-68, jul. 2018. ISSN 1138-1590. Disponible en: <http://polired.upm.es/index.php/cuadernodenotas/article/view/3817>. Fecha de acceso: 11 dic. 2018 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.20868/cn.2018.3817.Peer review
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Hassan FathyArquitectura
Architecture
Abstract
The “alternative” architectural condition points to individualistic processes that give results far removed from the conventionalisms of context. The internationalization of the modern postulates led the critique to leave constructive procedures in the analyses of revitalization of an architecture considered as excessively identitarian, to one side.
This article analyses the effort of the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) to defend at all levels, during a period coinciding with Western modernity, the wisdom of traditional inherited edification.
The scarcity of iron and cement in Egypt, after the Second World War, boosted the recovery of a low-cost construction adapted to the climatic conditions and the material resources available locally. Popular architecture’s durability, especially its utilitarian aspect, preserved
since ancient times and, in particular, its effectiveness in climate control, inspired in Fathy the desire to learn traditional constructive and spatial devices. ...
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