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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.
Mountain View is an Egyptian real estate development company. It was founded in 2005 with its headquarters in Cairo . It was ranked among the five largest companies in the real estate sector in Egypt in 2021.
Location of Egypt. Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.Egypt's economy depends mainly on agriculture, media, petroleum imports, natural gas, and tourism; there are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe.
Bayt al-Razzaz (Arabic: بيت الرزاز) is a mansion in the heart of medieval Cairo, Egypt, constructed from the late 15th century through the late 18th century.The 190-room urban palace in the Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood of medieval Cairo was abandoned in the 1960s, but a restoration project rehabilitated the eastern building between 1977 and 2007.
A term coined by historians and peers for architects in Egypt that were very influential in the shaping of the profession, especially initiating a home-grown blend of Egyptian Modernist architecture, roughly during the second quarter of the 20th Century. [1] Ali Labib Gabr (1898–1966) Mahmoud Riad (1905–1977) Mohamed Kamal Ismail (1908–2008)
View of the interior decoration of the mosque today In the mosque's interior courtyard, a band of Kufic inscriptions with a floriated background runs around the arches along the courtyard. Aside from some of the Kufic inscriptions and some of the carved wooden tie-beams between the arches, most of the mosque's original interior decoration has ...
Mamluk domes transitioned over time from wooden or brick structures to stone masonry structures. On the interior, the transition between the base of the round dome and the walls of the square chamber below were initially accomplished through multi-tiered squinches and later with muqarnas-carved pendentives.
The dome, in a cylindrical shape curving at the top, [11] is made of brick masonry. Its exterior shape has 32 ribs and 24 niches in the drum. [1] The ribs are the earliest variation on the simple, plain dome, and may be seen in the Fatimid mausoleums in Cairo, as in the Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya (528 AH / 1133 CE). The earliest example of a ...