the Architect who has revived 2من اصل4

the old heritage with modern taste
Our architecture stems from our heritage
so, we did not have any opportunity to think differently in comparison with their perfect thoughts and
ideas. We were always their top and chief concern, unlike current professors, and they spent most of
their time with us inside the faculty. Hassan Fathy was coming at night carrying the violin to play until
the early morning explaining the relationship between music, violin and architecture, while we were
recording his lectures to hear them again. If you see Ghalyys office, you will think that it is one of the
Fatimid houses of Cairo, but it lost its way to settle in one of the streets of luxury district of Dokki . At
the office, you will find oriels adorning the entire place, while the contents of the office of marble,
pottery and copper artifacts will take you to the spirit of the past. The sayings of supplications and
invocations are woven and hung on the walls. All these dream-like decorations are not surprising for
an artist schooled by the most prominent architects and artists who have been affected by the old
heritage: «Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa   Wassef » whose personal photos occupied part of the
office. With regard to Ramses Wissa   Wassef , Ghaly noted that he was also speaking a little, but he
has the ability to teach a person how to see and analyze what he sees and how to check and note the
minute details. Ghaly talks about his educational period saying: «We are a generation envied for being
schooled and taught by Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa   Wassef .» Ghaly failed to pass the aptitude
test for the first time, after he was asked to draw a «wall supported on the lonian style»,