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Rifat Chadirji

• 1926–2020

Role

Father of modern Iraqi architecture

In brief

Pioneer and theorist of “International Regionalism”: world techniques with a local character drawn from the arch and the iwan. His works include the Freedom Monument (with the sculptor Jawad Saleem), the Unknown Soldier monument and the Central Post Office, and his book “Al-Ukhaidir and the Crystal Palace”.