<div>Drawings, photographs, and other archival materials related to the&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/sites/18546">Iraq Scientific Academy</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/authorities/3469">Baghdad</a>, designed by&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/authorities/11">Rifat Chadirji</a>&nbsp;in 1965.<br></div>

Rifat Chadirji, HD

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<p>Chadirji project number: IRQ/731/104</p>

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Chadirji Photo Archive. Baghdad. Iraq Scientific Academy. Exterior View. NE Facade.

Iraq

<div style="text-align: justify;">The Iraq Scientific Academy Building houses the institution of the same name, which was founded in 1948 to promote and regulate the modern Arabic language. The building was constructed by Rifat Chadirji in 1965 in the Najib Pasha neighborhood of Baghdad. The building is exemplary of the architect's modern Iraqi style, blending elements of international Modernism with regional traditions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The building is composed of two blocks, each rising two stories high. The block on the northwest side, a rectangle oriented northeast to southwest, is largely devoid of windows or other apertures on its front and back facades. Its long, side facade (facing northeast) is fronted with a riwaq, or covered passageway rising to the level of the roof and communicating with the exterior through two sets of three tall archways. The block on the southeast side of the building is roughly square. Its front and back facades (facing northeast and southwest) have a row of six large french windows surmounted by smaller windows on the second story and framed by projecting arches. This block's side facade (facing southeast) is also fronted by a riwaq. Separating these two blocks are the building's main portals (one on the northeast or front facade and one on the southwest or back facade). These portals are framed with a rectangular projection creating an iwan-like space.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Entering the building through either portal, visitors step onto a large corridor separating the building's two blocks, which house different functions. The block on the building's northwest side contains assembly halls on its front end and service areas in the back. The block on the southeast side of the building houses the book stacks of the academy's library and a large reading room on its back end, and smaller, private reading rooms and the office of the library director on its front end.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The second story is accessible via two staircases, one in each of the two blocks described above. The upper floor of the northwestern block houses the president's offices on the back end and administrative offices on the front. These are separated by a broad middle corridor. On the southeastern side, the staircase leads onto a second-story reading room and rare book storage in the center of the building, which are flanked on either side by small offices for members of the academy. These offices enjoy views toward the front and back of the building through the second story windows housed within the projecting archways described above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sources</span>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -2em;"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -2em;">Al-Sulṭānī, Khālid. </span><i style="text-indent: -2em;">Rif‘at al-Jādirjī: mi‘mār</i><span style="text-indent: -2em;">, 274-278.</span><span style="text-indent: -2em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="text-indent: -28px;">Amman: Adib Books, 2016.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="csl-bib-body" style="line-height: 1.35; margin-left: 2em; text-indent:-2em;">
  <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Rif%E2%80%98at%20al-J%C4%81dirj%C4%AB%3A%20mi%E2%80%98m%C4%81r&amp;rft.place=Amman&amp;rft.publisher=AD%2FB%20Books&amp;rft.aufirst=Kh%C4%81lid&amp;rft.aulast=al-Sul%E1%B9%AD%C4%81n%C4%AB&amp;rft.au=Kh%C4%81lid%20al-Sul%E1%B9%AD%C4%81n%C4%AB&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.language=Arabic"></span></div></div>

Iraqi Scientific Academy Building

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Chadirji Photo Archive. Baghdad. Iraq Scientific Academy. Exterior. NE Facade.

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Chadirji Photo Archive. Baghdad. Iraq Scientific Academy. SW Facade.

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Chadirji Photo Archive. Baghdad. Iraq Scientific Academy. SE Facade. Window.

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Chadirji Photo Archive. Baghdad. Iraq Scientific Academy. First Floor Plan. Alternate.

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Chadirji Photo Archive. Baghdad. Iraqi Scientific Academy. NW Elevation.

Iraq Scientific Academy (Rifat Chadirji Archive)

<p>The&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/collections/123" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT</a>&nbsp;is pleased to announce that it is now the home of the&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/authorities/11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rifat Chadirji</a>&nbsp;Archive. One of the most influential Iraqi architects of the 20th century, Chadirji was also an accomplished photographer, author, teacher, and critic. Chadirji was born in Baghdad in 1926, was educated in the UK, and returned to Iraq upon graduating as an active participant in the modernization of the country, working with notable architects and designers from Europe, the United States, and Iraq including, Frank Lloyd Wright,&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/authorities/584" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Le Corbusier</a>, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, and&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/authorities/13" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mohamed Makiya</a>. Chadirji dedicated his life to the search for an appropriate contemporary architectural expression synthesizing elements of the rich Islamic cultural heritage with key principles of the international architecture of the 20th century. Chadirji believed that architecture’s future lies in lessons learned from its past. His designs are transformations of regional forms that seek to express, by means of abstraction, the construction technologies in almost universal use today, while affirming the aesthetic values.</p><p><br></p><p>In 1986, Mr. Chadirji received an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.akdn.org/person/rifat-chadirji-0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aga Khan Chairman’s Award for Lifetime Achievements</a>. In 2015, Chadirji was awarded the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tamayouz-award.com/news/rifat-chadirji-receives-the-2015-tamayouz-architectural-lifetime-achievement-award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tamayouz Architectural Lifetime Achievement Award</a>, an award that celebrates the pioneers of Iraqi architecture and is “presented annually to an individual who has had a significant contribution towards the advancement of&nbsp;architecture in Iraq.”</p><p><br></p><p>With this gift, the Center becomes the repository for archives of&nbsp;three leading pioneers of&nbsp;modern architecture in Iraq:&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/collections/123" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mohamed Makiya</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/collections/851" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hisham Munir,&nbsp;</a>and, now,&nbsp;<a href="http://archnet.org/authorities/11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rifat Chadirji</a>. A relatively new initiative, developed when AKDC was formally re-envisioned and restructured in 2011, the Center has quickly achieved the status of a world-class research center for the archives of distinguished architects from the Islamic world.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://archnet.org/authorities/2684" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D.</a></p><p>Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT</p><p>Cambridge, MA</p><p>7 January 2017</p>

Rifat Chadirji Archive

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