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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prelude: Dream And Reality Paradise Lost | |
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| The Countryside Mud Brick | |
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| Sole Hope for Rural Reconstruction Mud for Roofing, Bahtim | |
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| Trial and Error Nubia | |
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| Survival of an Ancient Technique of Vaulting The Nubian Masons at Work | |
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| First Successes Ezbet el Basry | |
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| Iblis in Ambush A Tomb Robbery Begets a Pilot Housing Project Birth of New Gourna: The Site | |
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| Chorale: Man, Society, And Technology | |
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| Architectural Character | |
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| The Process of Decision Making | |
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| Tradition's Role Saving Individuality in the Village | |
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| Traditional Village Crafts Restored | |
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| The Use of Mud Brick an Economic Necessity Reestablishment of the "Trinity" | |
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| Owner, Architect, and Craftsman Vernacular Architecture of Old Gourna | |
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| Change with Constancy Climate and Architecture Orientation of Houses | |
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| Determined Partly by Sun, Partly by Wind The Malkaf, or Wind Catch Society and Architecture | |
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| Kinship Structure and Local Custom Socioeconomic Considerations | |
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| Rural Crafts in Gourna | |
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| The Plan of New Gourna Public Service Buildings and Amenities | |
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| The Peasant House Combating Bilharzia Gourna, A Pilot Project | |
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| The Cooperative System In-Service Training Gourna Not an End in Itself A Stillborn Experiment, Mit-el-Nasara National Program for Rural Reconstruction | |
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| Fugue: Architect, Peasant, And Bureaucrat | |
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| First Season | |
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| 1945-46 Second Season | |
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| 1946-47 Third Season: 1947-48 | |
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| Finale: Gourna Dormant | |
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| An Architect in Search of a Patron Slander Continues Gourna Revisited Gourna in Nabaroh | |
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| Cost Analysis of Labor and Rates of the Execution of Works Cost Analysis of Materials and Labor Used in Gourna Village Cost of Stone Sand Construction | |
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| In-Service Training | |
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| Organization of Work | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Brick Making Extract from Colonel Debes's Experiments Extract from Dr. Mustapha Yehya's Experiments | |
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| Cost Analysis at the Moment when the Project Was Handed Over to the Ministry of Social Affairs | |
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| Glossary Illustrations | |