Main entry:

Fathy, Hassan, author.

Title & Author:

Natural energy and vernacular architecture : principles and examples with reference to hot arid climates / Hassan Fathy ; edited by Walter Shearer and Abd-el-rahman Ahmed Sultan.

Publication:

Chicago : Published for the United Nations University by the University of Chicago Press, [1986].
©1986

Description:

xxiii, 172 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Restrictions:

Distribution: General.

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index.
Part 1. Man, natural environment, and architecture. 1. Environment and architecture --- 2. Architectural thermodynamics and human comfort in hot climates ---- Part 2. Natural energy and vernacular architecture. 3. Architecture and comfort --- 4. The sun factor --- 5. The wind factor in air movement --- 6. The sun factor in air movement --- 7. The humidity factor.
In Related Ephemera (from Library Copy 2): photocopy of article entitled "Keeping cool - desert style," from Appropriate Technology vol. 7, no. 2, September 1980.
Library copy 2: Kiran Mukerji Collection.

Summary:

The field of vernacular architecture offers an abundance of concepts that can be of use today in solving the critical housing situation now facing millions in the Third World. The example chosen to illustrate this by the UNU Energy Subprogramme covers the vernacular architecture of the hot, arid zones of the Arab World and neighboring regions. It was felt that the person best suited to prepare a monograph on this subject was Professor Hassan Fathy. Not only is Professor Fathy a master architect and an expert in the area of traditional architecture, especially in the Arab World, but he has been so for more than half a century. His work has also demonstrated the value that traditional architecture can have in improving the housing and living environments of the poor of the Third World. As a theoretician and practitioner of environmental planning design, Dr. Fathy's approach is based on a set of principles that are useful in opening the mind to the value of vernacular architecture and to adapting it to the situation in which a large fraction of the world's population find themselves today. Professor Fathy's approach is based on the concept that architectural form should be determined by spiritual, artistic, climatic, and social considerations as well as function, material, and structure. He emphasizes that due consideration must be given to a number of elements including harmony. -- from Foreword.

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ISBN:

0226239179
9780226239170
0226239187 (pbk.)
9780226239187 (pbk.)

Subject:

Exocet
Architecture, Domestic Arid regions Arab countries.
Vernacular architecture Environmental aspects Arab countries.
Architecture and energy conservation Arab countries.
Arquitectura vernácula Aspectos ambientales Países árabes.
Arquitectura y conservación de energía Países árabes.
Architecture domestique Régions arides États arabes.
Architecture vernaculaire Aspect de l'environnement États arabes.
Architecture et économies d'énergie États arabes.
Architecture and energy conservation.
Architecture, Domestic Arid regions.
Vernacular architecture Environmental aspects.
Energieeinsparung
Hausbau
Volksarchitektur
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture vernaculaire Aspect de l'environnement Pays arabes.
Architecture et économies d'énergie Pays arabes.
Architecture domestique Régions arides.
Klima.
ARCHITECTURE.
ARAB COUNTRIES.
ARID ZONES.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS.
THERMODYNAMICS.
MATHEMATICAL MODELS.
STATISTICAL DATA.
Arab countries.
Arabien
Arabische Staaten

Added entries:

Shearer, Walter, editor.
Sulṭān, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, editor.
Shearer, Walter.
Sultān, ʻAbd al-Rahmān.
African Architecture Matters
Kiran Mukerji Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library main kiran mukerji 295984
Call No.: BIB 86547
Copy: c. 2
Notes: Related Ephemera
Status: Available

Location: Library main kiran mukerji 295983
Call No.: BIB 86547
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 101867
Call No.: ID:86-B20298
Status: Available