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Episode 26 / 32 · Architect

Qahtan al-Madfai

Where architecture meets the brush and the poem

  • 1927–2021
  • About 5 minutes
  • Script ready for filming
The architectQahtan al-MadfaiArchitecture, brush and poem
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Here, seven thousand years of building.

Iraq National Museum of Architecture
Iraq National Museum of Architecture

The Museum

  • About
  • The Building
  • The Halls
  • The Prize

Collection

  • Ten Landmarks
  • Twenty-two Eras
  • Pioneers
  • The Series

Contact

  • info@iqarch.org
  • @iqarch_museum
  • Baghdad, Iraq

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Ten Landmarks

  • The Ziggurat of Ur
  • The Ishtar Gate
  • The Arch of Ctesiphon (Taq Kasra)
  • Al-Ukhaidir Palace
  • The Malwiya of Samarra
  • Bab al-Wastani
  • Al-Mustansiriya School
  • The Al-Hadba Minaret
  • Erbil Citadel
  • Al-Qishla and the Clock Tower

Visit Experience

  • All concepts
  • Map of the landmarks

Pioneers

  • Gudea
  • Ahmad Mukhtar Ibrahim
  • Mohamed Saleh Makiya
  • Nizar Ali Jawdat
  • Rifat Chadirji
  • Qahtan al-Madfai
  • Hisham Munir
  • Maath Alousi
  • Hisham N. Ashkouri
  • Zaha Hadid

Episodes 1–16

  • 1. Prehistoric and Early Neolithic Village Cultures
  • 2. Ubaid Period
  • 3. Uruk Period
  • 4. Early Dynastic (Sumerian) Period
  • 5. Akkadian Period
  • 6. Neo-Sumerian and Ur III Period
  • 7. Gudea of Lagash
  • 8. Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian Period
  • 9. Kassite Period
  • 10. Hurrian-Mitanni and Middle Assyrian Period
  • 11. Neo-Assyrian Period
  • 12. Neo-Babylonian Period
  • 13. Achaemenid Period
  • 14. Seleucid (Hellenistic) Period
  • 15. Parthian Period
  • 16. Sasanian Period, Lakhmid al-Hira and Early Christian Architecture

Episodes 17–32

  • 17. Rashidun and Umayyad Period
  • 18. Abbasid Period
  • 19. Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, Turkmen, Safavid and Ottoman Periods
  • 20. Monarchy and Early Modernism
  • 21. Ahmad Mukhtar Ibrahim
  • 22. Mohamed Saleh Makiya
  • 23. Nizar Ali Jawdat
  • 24. Republican Era
  • 25. Rifat Chadirji
  • 26. Qahtan al-Madfai
  • 27. Hisham Munir
  • 28. Maath Alousi
  • 29. Contemporary Architecture
  • 30. Hisham N. Ashkouri
  • 31. Zaha Hadid
  • 32. Vernacular Architecture and Traditional Building Elements
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