Rifat Chadirji (Arabic: رفعت الجادرجي Rifa’a al-Khādarjī, also RomanizedRifa'at Al Chaderchi; December 6, 1926 – April 10, 2020) was an Iraqiarchitect, photographer, author and activist. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He was often seen as the father of modern Iraqi architecture. He designed more than 100 buildings across the country.[1] His best known work was the The Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Baghdad.
Chadriji died from COVID-19 in London on April 10, 2020, at the age of 93.[2][3]
↑Elsheshtawy, Y. (ed.), Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope, Routledge, 2004, p. 72
↑Frampton, K. and Khan, H-U. (eds), World Architecture 1900-2000: The Middle East, Vol. 5, Armenian Research Center, 2000, [World Architecture Series], p. xxx
↑Elsheshtawy, Y. (ed.), Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope, Routledge, 2004, p. 72
↑Bernhardsson, M.T., "Visions of the Past: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad," in Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi, Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century," University of Washington Press, 2008, p.92
↑Hagan, S., Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature, Routledge, 2007, p. 124