Architecture for the Poor : an experiment in rural Egypt /
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| Formato: | Monografía |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Chicago, Estados Unidos :
The University of Chicago Press,
1973.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / William R. Polk
- Preface
- Prelude: dream and reality
- Paradise lost: the countryside
- Mud brick: sole hope for rural reconstruction
- Mud for roofing, bahtim: trial and error
- Nubia: survival of an ancient technique of Vaulting
- The Nubian Masons at work: first successes
- Ezbet el Basry: Iblis in Ambush
- A Tomb Robbery Begets a Pilot Housing Project
- Birth of New Gourna: the site
- Man, society and technology
- Architectural character
- The process of decision making
- Tradition's role
- Saving individuality in the village
- Traditional village crafts restores
- The us of mud brick an economic necessity
- Reestablishment ofthe "trinity": owner, architect, and craftsman
- Vernacular architecture of Old Gourna
- Change with constancy
- Climate and architecture
- Orientation of houses determined partly by sun, partly by wind
- The Malkaf, or Wind Catch
- Society and architecture
- Kinship structure and local custom
- Socieconomic considerations
- Rural crafts in Gourna
- The plan of New Gourna
- Public service buildings and amenities
- The peasant house
- Combating Bilharzia
- Gourna, a pilot project
- The cooperative system
- In-service training
- Gourna not an end in itself
- A stillborn experiment, Mit-el-Nasara
- National program for rural reconstruction
- Fugue: architect, peasant, and Bureaucrat
- Finale: Gourna Dormant.