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...weeks earlier, the first (and unauthorized) outdoor show had abruptly ended when bulldozers, dump trucks and water wagons literally drove the artists underground by churning their works into the mud (TIME Sept...
Officials moved quickly to burn or bury masses of bloated, mud-caked bodies, but the stench of death was everywhere. A broiling sun soon beat down on the havoc. Stranded children suffered from exposure and sunstroke. One family was rescued after spending four days holding on to high-tension wires just a few feet above the flood waters. At least a dozen people were treated for spider or snake bites after tarantulas and fer-de-lances fled their hiding places in flooded banana groves. An estimated 100,000 people have been left homeless by the hurricane...
...nation's western desert, he can bring the cost down to $500 per unit, including a kitchen and a latrine. He designs housing so that peasants can build it much as their fathers did in the past. No structural steel, concrete or wood is needed, just mud bricks and the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia. As a result, he says, he has "a billion clients" -the world's poor...
...owned by my father, I suddenly felt terribly responsible for it all," he says. "I decided I must do something." Using the architectural training he received at Cairo's Higher School of Engineering, he decided to design decent dwelling for peasants, using locally available bricks made of mud and straw...
...walls were no problem, but the roof defeated me," Fathy recalls. "If I used structural materials, the house became too expensive for the peasants. If I tried to build a vaulted roof using only mud bricks, the whole thing collapsed." The problem was that a vault, like any arch, has structural strength only when it is complete, and the peasants lacked wood to support the arch while it was being built. Still, Fathy remembered that the ancient Egyptians had somehow built sturdy houses of the same material. But, he says, "I feared that the secret had been lost...