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Contemporary Iraqi Architects: Design Offices

Rifat Chadirji: The Unknown Soldier Monument, Baghdad

An Iraqi Architect on Hold? Get in Line! Salt-and-pepper haired in a black turtleneck with a refined taste in the arts, literature, wine, and minimalist Japanese cuisine; architects are perennial emblems of human perfection. And when they die, their souls only leave their bodies to inhabit the buildings they’d designed…