Author Archives: James Steele

Reinterpreting tradition: Hassan Fathy

By James Steele 18 January 1990 Archive

On the occassion of Hassan Fathy’s death in 1990, James Steele reflects on Fathy’s search for the true meaning of tradition

A model village in Upper Egypt by Hassan Fathy

11 September 1947 By Raymond Mortimer

Hassan Fathy brings function and tradition to meet with aesthetic excellence in…

African Modernism: Nation Building

2 May 2017 By Manuel Herz

As countries in Africa gained their independence, modernist architecture attempted to express…

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Arbiters of conscience: architectural jeremiads

15 January 2020 By Darran Anderson

In the censure of destruction and alienation wrought by architecture, jeremiads play…

AR February 2020 on Soil

27 January 2020 By AR Editors

Martin Rauch | Waugh Thistleton Architects | BC Architects | De Gouden Liniaal…

Inhabiting the earth: a new history of raw earth architecture

31 January 2020 By Jean Dethier

With its roots in all ancient civilisations across the world, earth construction is…

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Hassan Fathy (1900–1989)

14 February 2020 By Viola Bertini

Often referred to as the ‘Architect of the Poor’, Hassan Fathy used a…

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