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Hassan Fathy

1900 - 1989

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Hassan Fathy (Egyptian Arabic: حسن فتحي; March 23, 1900 – November 30, 1989) was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to reestablish the use of adobe and traditional mud construction as opposed to western building designs, material configurations, and lay-outs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hassan Fathy has received more than 378,160 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Hassan Fathy is the 197th most popular architect (up from 204th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 295th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Egyptian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Hassan Fathy ranks 197 out of 424Before him are Adolphe Appia, Carl Ludvig Engel, Muhammad V of Granada, Hans Poelzig, Matthias of Arras, and Alexey Shchusev. After him are Giovanni Giocondo, Quatremère de Quincy, Christian de Portzamparc, Ödön Lechner, Adrian Smith, and Kevin Roche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hassan Fathy ranks 104Before him are Muhammad Asad, Duy Tân, Miguel Alemán Valdés, Valko Chervenkov, Zhang Wentian, and Violet Brown. After him are George Antheil, Ernst Krenek, Marc Allégret, James Hilton, Fritz London, and René Crevel. Among people deceased in 1989, Hassan Fathy ranks 91Before him are Cesare Zavattini, Mihály Lantos, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Hamani Diori, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Józef Cyrankiewicz. After him are Nicolás Guillén, Ondrej Nepela, Carlos Puebla, Sergei Sobolev, Franz Binder, and Elisaveta Bykova.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Hassan Fathy ranks 305 out of 582Before him are Ahmed Shafik (1941), Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (1929), Pope Anianus of Alexandria (100), Merneferre Ay (-1650), Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam (850), and Boutros Ghali (1846). After him are Carpocrates (100), Mohamed Atta (1968), Alexander II Zabinas (-190), Al-Mansur Ali (1242), Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938), and Nepherites I (-490).

Among ARCHITECTS In Egypt

Among architects born in Egypt, Hassan Fathy ranks 7Before him are Imhotep (-2800), Khufu (-2700), Senenmut (-1600), Hemiunu (-2500), Amenhotep, son of Hapu (-1420), and Nefermaat (-2500).