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H. H. Hamood Villa
Location
Baghdad
Country
Iraq

Architect/Engineer/Team
Rifat Chadirji

Construction
1972/1977

Project Status
Built
Building Type
House

Notes
Chadirji tried to be modern and use modern techniques yet at the same time to give tribute to the local culture and be site-specific. In the villa, he used local motifs that were translated in a contemporary approach such as the mudhifs of old Mesopotamia. 
Sources

World Architecture A Critical Mosaic, Middle East, Vol. 5, p. XXX

Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States (Kultermann), pp. 38-39

Khaled Sultany; Caecilia Pieri

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Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture
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Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture
© Aga Khan Award for Architecture