It is a fact that any architect can easily learn technically, everything concerning the construction with vaults and domes, the so called Hassan Fathy style, in only few weeks or even few days. However, 10 years with Hassan Fathy, and 10 years after him, were not enough to fully learn what Architecture according to Hassan Fathy is about; there was a lot more to learn. Harmony, Musicality in Architecture, Culture, Economy, Environment, Climate, Beauty and above all Gratuity, Dignity and Self-respect of the architect. It is only with time, long-time, memories and hard work that these meanings all revealed. From November 1979 to November 1989, 10 years with Hassan Fathy during which we went through three different and important phases: At the beginning, as newly graduate architect working with him, everything and every opinion I said was wrong or ridiculed. Many times Hassan Fathy expressed his concern about how ignorant new graduates were, so I decided to be silent, as later he described me, "Introverted". I would not speak or give any opinion, and I was hardly asking any question and acted like a sponge trying to learn, doing exactly what I was told to do. Only some years later, when Hassan Fathy commissioned us to be responsible for the restoration of the theatre in the village of New Gourna and to teach at the same time 20 young gournies how to build in vaults and domes, we dared to consider ourselves "Architects" in the International Institute of Appropriate Technology. Later, Hassan Fathy encouraged us to work on our own. One day he recommended us to a client who wanted to build a house and he said "Now you will do this house but let me see how you will solve the problems of the project". In 1987, when we were directly commissioned our chief project, the Hotel in Quseir, many design decisions of that project were discussed with him. With Hassan Fathy, we learned about Architecture and other issues in life at the daily tea-time more than on the drawing board. Hassan Fathy insisted that at tea-time we would stop working and gather around the table, or the fire place in winter, when most visitors used to drop in. One day Hassan Fathy told us (Soheir and I) that he wishes us to be Bare-Footed Architects like the Bare-Footed Doctors of China and he predicted then with a big smile that if we do so we will end up being "High Booted" Architects with plenty of work. I can recall another important discussion with Hassan Fathy that is of great meaning to me. One day I asked him about one's confusion while designing from too many options without knowing what to choose, like the door of a house, it could be this side or that side, the roof that could be a high dome or a shallow dome, etc…. His answer was "In Architecture, one should search for the Implicit and not the Arbitrary". It is taking many years to grasp the whole meaning of such a statement. We can develop or change a dome detail or innovate on the design concept of a project, but on the other hand, I believe that the philosophy of Hassan Fathy in architecture is entire, one can only try to understand it more and more. If anyone wants to research about Vernacular Architecture, Architecture of the people, he must start with Hassan Fathy. Rami El Dahan "Rami El Dahan & Soheir Farid, Architects"