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The Legacy of Hassan Fathy

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Bianca
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« on: July 12, 2007, 08:48:32 am »






I should distinguish between ecological and sustainable architecture. They overlap some, but I would argue that the difference is that ecological architecture is concerned with materials and effects of methods, while sustainability deals with that as well as the community and social issues. It deals with understanding culture and understanding that architecture need not be beautiful to be effective. It's hard to get students, faculty, and schools of architecture to buy into this, because schools of architecture typically want students to design beautiful buildings. But I believe that the situation today, 10 years after Hassan Fathy's death, desperately calls for his ideas and a realization of what he stood for.

In Los Angeles, where I come from, there is a project being built now called Playa Vista. It is one of the largest areas of urban development in the world today, considered sustainable development because it combines the ideas of mixed-use, low car traffic, high pedestrian use, green areas and clustering to create open areas. Well, I hate to say it, but it sounds a lot like [Fathy's vision] at New Bariz Village to me. Hassan Fathy was there 25 years ago, but Playa Vista is being heralded as the model of the sustainable American community of the future. Every sustainable principle you can mention or want to talk about, Fathy wrote about, thought about, built, gave us living examples of. That is why his work is important.
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