Hassan Fathy quotes
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“Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.”
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“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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“Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.”
-- Hassan Fathy
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“I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.”
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
Source : In National Observer 1 July 1963
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“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”
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“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”
Source : Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1998). “Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism”, ABRAMS
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“Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.”
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