Hassan Fathy’s “Architecture for the Poor“ reviewed by Attilio Petruccioli

Hassan Fathy (Alexandria 1900 – Cairo 1989) was Egypt’s most important architect of the 20th century. He is hardly known outside of Egypt and was unpopular in his native country throughout his life. He received numerous awards including the 1970 French Literary Prize for ’Architecture for the Poor’, which originally published in French. Hassan Fathy’s great contribution to modern Egyptian architecture is the rediscovery of traditional methods of clay construction. Their principles had been forgotten; not un