Photos of a lost Baghdad from its greatest modern architect
Rifat Chadirji?s pictures of his own buildings chronicle a Middle Eastern capital in flux Street photography plays a vital role in charting and chronicling the changing streets of modern cities. But when that photographer is an architect, one who helped create the shifting city he?s documenting, the imagery captures different perspectives.
Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation, an exhibit that recently opened at Chicago?s Graham Foundation, explores the images and curbside documentation of Chadirji, a famed Iraqi modernist architect who created the styles and symbols that define much of the metropolis.
Chadirji may not be a name recognizable to western audiences, but he?s a legend in the Middle East. Born into an influential family in Baghdad, he served as president of the architecture firm Iraq Consul and during a career where he designed nearly 100 buildings, became a cornerstone of what would be called the Baghdad School of Architecture (Zaha Hadid studied with him one summer).
What makes Chadirji so intriguing, according to curator Mark Wasiuta, a professor at Columbia University?s architecture graduate program who organized the exhibit, is the way his buildings evolve and transform throughout his career, especially after the 1958 Iraq Revolution and his country?s independence. Chadirji began incorporating regional designs into International Modernism, developing a design method, theor...
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