Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO)
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO) Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO) Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO)
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO)
URGENT PLEA TO SAVE KHD
Dr geoffrey tassie
WHO ARE WE?
ECHO's support of the KHD project was initiated by ECHO's co-founder, noted Egyptologist Dr Geoffrey Tassie (1959-2019).
Initially excavated in the 1990s onwards, the current project is run in his memory by members of ECHO and Jagiellonian University (Poland), assisted by a group of international specialists and Egyptian field archaeologists.
The site's inclusion on the Endangered Sites Register lends its excavation a certain urgency, and we are seeking the resources to save what we can.
Please follow the DONATE link below to the donations page to find out more.
HASSAN FATHY'S INITIATIVE
Hassan Fathy Center for Architecture & Sustainable Development
Hassan Fathy, an Egyptian architect, was ahead of his time. He designed in 1945 the new village of Gourna to be a model of human architecture and to demonstrate the role of architecture in community development.
Architects in the whole world, from China to Nigeria, have been alerted to his ideas, especially since the seventies of the twentieth century, and his name has been associated with environmental architecture, green architecture, native architecture, popular architecture, and currently with sustainable architecture and development. Despite this, Hassan Fathy’s Gourna did not receive enough attention, therefore , we present this initiative as a vehicle to the disseminate, implement and develop of Hassan Fathy’s ideas and methods toward the realization of the role of architecture in sustainable development.
HASSAN FATHY 1900-1989