Architecture for the Poor: Poems in Mud and Spirit

Name: Architecture for the Poor: Poems in Mud and Spirit
Author: Imad Darouich

عمارة الفقراء: قصائد في الطين والروح

By Architect Imad Darouich

Twenty poems on Hassan Fathy's architecture, in five parts: mud as memory and New Gourna, domes and courtyards as sky on earth, poverty as wealth, the market and mosque of the village, and the return to earth. In them mud becomes poetry and the house becomes a prayer.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Architects

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