Baghdad University Campus
Location
Baghdad
Baghdad
Country
Iraq
Iraq
Architect/Engineer/Team
(Team) The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
(Team) The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
Construction
1958/1970
1958/1970
Project Status
Built
Built
Building Type
University
University
Notes
Designed as a small city, the project consists of 273 buildings, mostly concrete, arranged around a web of courts. TAC largely collaborated with Iraqi associate architects Hisham Munir and Medhat Ali Madhloom. The buildings were designed with great concern for climate control, obvious in the striking use of vertical and horizontal sunshades, in the mostly North and South orientation, and in the presence of water on roofs and walls for cooling purposes (designed by German sculptor Norbert Kricke). The project was never fully completed as planned by the architects. Some structures were never built and projects were later added on to the complex.
Sources
World Architecture A Critical Mosaic, Middle East, Vol. 5, pp. 92-95, XXIX
Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States (Kultermann), p. 41
City of Mirages: Baghdad, from Wright to Venturi" edited by Pedro Azara, Barcelona: UPC, 2008), pp. 157-164
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Administration Building
Source: Baghdad University
© Baghdad University
Campus Mosque
Source: Khaled Sultany
© Khaled Sultany
Mass plan of academic zone
Source: Ministry of Public Works, Iraq
© Ministry of Public Works, Iraq