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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.
Fine Arts Library NA7117.A74 F3 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fathy, Hassan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Arab countries.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Vernacular architecture--Environmental aspects--Arab countries.
- Vernacular architecture.
- Architecture and energy conservation--Arab countries.
- Architecture and energy conservation.
- Vernacular architecture--Environmental aspects.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Published for the United Nations University by the University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- The culmination of a lifetime's design practice and environmental study, Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture presents a master architects' extraordinary insights into the vernacular wisdom of indigenous architectural forms that have evolved in hot arid climates.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 167-169.
- ISBN:
- 0226239179
- OCLC:
- 12809116
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