Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hassan Fathy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy.
Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Hassan Fathy

Hassan Fathy 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. Fathy was recognized with the Aga Khan Chairman's Award for Architecture in 1980. In 2017, Google celebrated Fathy with a Google Doodle for "pioneering new methods [in architecture], respecting tradition [Egyptian heritage and tradition], and valuing all walks of life".

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. — © Hassan Fathy
Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.
Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses are to be built at all, in sufficient quantity, they must be built without money. We must go right outside the framework of the money system, bypass the factories, and ignore the contractors.
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