Description via Amazon. Hassan Fathy is Egypt's best-known 20th-century architect. He was also a man of contradictions. He came from a wealthy background and had a western-style training. Yet he ...

When it comes to midcentury modern architects, names like Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe immediately come to mind. But the one that is arguably the most relevant today, on this ...

New Gourna Village is located in Luxor on the West Bank of the Nile River, within the World Heritage property of Ancient Thebes in Egypt. The Village was designed and built between 1946 and 1952 by ...