Wolgraugorimilir's Reviews > عمارة الفقراء

“As it happened, I had recently had an adventure with two thieves who had broken into my house and stabbed me, yet this is no exaggeration to say that I felt safer with these thieves than with officials who could lie to prevent a benefit from reaching the peasants”

Fathy speaks for himself.

This book actually had the plot twist of all time. His description of the principles of mud-brick vaulting for peasant housing were so inspiring and energizing, that it broke my entire heart when he suddenly said

“But the Gourna experiment failed. The village was never finished, and it is not to this day a flourishing village community”

A thousand curses to bureaucratic obstruction !!!

At least many beautiful buildings were made in spite of the sabotage. I’m off to Wikipedia now to see what happened during the rest of Fathy’s career.