Save Hassan Fathy's New Gourna

Abstract

To a somewhat general indifference, a modern Egyptian village of outstanding artistic and heritage value is shamelessly neglected and allowed to decay and crumble. But architect Hassan Fathy's New Gourna village should not disappear. There, an extraordinary formal modern architectural language emphasizes the lessons of know-how, human solidarity and appropriate technology placed in the hands of an underprivileged community. New Gourna really ought to live on in order to show future generations, as the architect would have wished, the possibilities of well-reasoned development in an emergent

Keywords

• Egypt
• Hassan Fathy