Hassan Fathy Quotes & Sayings

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Hassan Fathy

Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose. — Hassan Fathy

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. — Hassan Fathy

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. — Hassan Fathy