Academy of Science in Baghdad

Notes

"The building is composed of two blocks, each rising two stories high. The block on the northwest side, a rectangle-oriented northeast to southwest, is largely devoid of windows or other apertures on its front and back facades. Its long, side facade (facing northeast) is fronted with a riwaq, or covered passageway rising to the level of the roof and communicating with the exterior through two sets of three tall archways. The block on the southeast side of the building is roughly square. Its front and back facades (facing northeast and southwest) have a row of six large French windows surmounted by smaller windows on the second story and framed by projecting arches. This block's side facade (facing southeast) is also fronted by a riwaq. Separating these two blocks are the building's main portals (one on the northeast or front facade and one on the southwest or back facade). These portals are framed with a rectangular projection creating an iwan-like space." (Al Sultani, 2016)

Sources

Udo Kultermann, Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1999 p. 38.

Khaled Al Sultani,  Rifat al Chadirji: Mimar, 274-278. Amman: Adib Books, 2016.

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