Hassan Fathy famous quotes

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

#Feet #Architecture

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

#House #Building #Contractor

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

#Tradition #Habit #Social

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.