Rifat Chadirji: Building Index

The prolific and prominent architect Rifat Chadirji launched his office Iraq Consult in Baghdad in the late 1950s. In less than 20 years, his design output comprised almost 100 buildings, from monuments and residences to governmental and industrial buildings in Iraq and the Gulf Region. An avid photographer, these photgraphic works form his building index – published for the first time in this book. The index is both a scrupulous inventory of his building career and a testimony to its sudden end.Despite his fame, in the climate of suspicion that dominated a heavily policed Iraq, Chadirji was jailed in 1978. He was released two years later and eventually left Iraq in 1983 to devote himself to writing and to cataloging his works.
ISBN 9786148035135. Kaph Books. hb. 420 pages. 390 colour ills. 25 x 45 cm.
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