Documentary Series
“Iraqi Architecture Through the Ages”: 32 episodes of about five minutes, 22 architectural eras and ten architects.
- 01Prehistoric and Early Neolithic Village CulturesFrom the cave to the housec. 10,000–5500 BCE
- 02Ubaid PeriodThe birth of the templec. 5500–4000 BCE
- 03Uruk PeriodThe first city in historyc. 4000–3100 BCE
- 04Early Dynastic (Sumerian) PeriodWhen the city became a statec. 2900–2350 BCE
- 05Akkadian PeriodA lost imperial capitalc. 2334–2154 BCE
- 06Neo-Sumerian and Ur III PeriodThe age of zigguratsc. 2150–2004 BCE
- 07Gudea of LagashThe architect with a planc. 2144–2124 BCE
- 08Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian PeriodHammurabi’s whole cityc. 2004–1595 BCE
- 09Kassite PeriodThe world’s first decorated façadec. 1595–1155 BCE
- 10Hurrian-Mitanni and Middle Assyrian PeriodFrom trading city to the seed of an empirec. 1500–1000 BCE
- 11Neo-Assyrian PeriodFour capitals for one empire911–612 BCE
- 12Neo-Babylonian PeriodThe greatest city of the ancient world626–539 BCE
- 13Achaemenid PeriodBabylon becomes a Persian capital539–331 BCE
- 14Seleucid (Hellenistic) PeriodIraq’s first grid of right-angled streets331–141 BCE
- 15Parthian PeriodThe city of the sun and the birth of the iwan141 BCE–224 CE
- 16Sasanian Period, Lakhmid al-Hira and Early Christian ArchitectureThe largest open brick arch in the world224–651 CE
- 17Rashidun and Umayyad PeriodThe first planned Islamic cities636–750 CE
- 18Abbasid PeriodBaghdad and Samarra, capitals of the world750–1258 CE
- 19Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, Turkmen, Safavid and Ottoman PeriodsSix centuries of variety under one banner after another1258–1917 CE
- 20Monarchy and Early ModernismWhen Baghdad invited the world’s great architects1917–1958 CE
- 21Ahmad Mukhtar IbrahimIraq’s first government architect1907–1960
- 22Mohamed Saleh MakiyaFounder of Iraq’s first architecture department1914–2015
- 23Nizar Ali JawdatThe bridge to the University of Baghdad1920–2017
- 24Republican EraWhen architecture wrote the history of the republic1958–2003 CE
- 25Rifat ChadirjiFather of modern Iraqi architecture1926–2020
- 26Qahtan al-MadfaiWhere architecture meets the brush and the poem1927–2021
- 27Hisham MunirFrom the University of Baghdad campus to his own officeb. 1930
- 28Maath AlousiThe architect who documented his own generationb. 1938
- 29Contemporary ArchitectureIraq returns to the world map2003 CE–today
- 30Hisham N. AshkouriA plan for Baghdad, from Washington1948–2025
- 31Zaha HadidThe first woman to win the Pritzker1950–2016
- 32Vernacular Architecture and Traditional Building ElementsThe tradition that never brokeTraditions running through every age