Fathy, Hassan

LC control no.	n 84132466
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Fathy, Hassan *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Fatḥī, Ḥasan فتحي، حسن فنحي، حسن
Associated country	Egypt
Associated place	Qurna (Egypt)
Located	Cairo (Egypt) Athens (Greece) Darb al Labbana (Egypt)
Birth date	1900-03-23
Death date	1989-11-30
Place of birth	Alexandria (Egypt)
Place of death	Cairo (Egypt)
Field of activity	Architecture Architecture and technology Appropriate technology Building, Adobe
Affiliation	Jāmiʻat Fuʼād al-Awwal Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah
Profession or occupation	Architects
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	His Le pays d'Utopie, 1949: t.p. (Hassan Fathy) LC data base, 11-8-84 (hdg.: Fathy, Hassan) Ibrāhīm, ʻA. al-B. Ḥasan Fatḥī, 1987: t.p. (Ḥasan Fatḥī) p. 152 (b. 3/23/1900 in Alexandria; grad. of Jāmiʻat al-Malik Fuʼād al-Awwal, 1926; studied at the College of Fine Arts, 1930-1946; architect at al-Majālis al-Baladīyah, 1926-1930) Wikipedia, viewed September 19, 2021 (Hassan Fathy (March 23, 1900-November 30, 1989); noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt; born in Alexandria; studied and trained as an architect in Egypt, graduating in 1926 from the King Fuad University (now Cairo University); began teaching at the College of Fine Arts in 1930 and designed his first adobe buildings in the late 1930s; involved in construction of New Gourna, on Luxor's West Bank, a resettlement of Gourna which was in the archaeological areas of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens; 1953 he returned to Cairo, heading the Architectural Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1954; 1957-1963 lived in Athens; 1963 returned to Cairo, moved to Darb al Labbana, near the Cairo Citadel, where he lived and worked the rest of his life; died in Cairo in 1989)
Invalid LCCN	n 88243905