Rifat Chadirji Archive
Architectural drawings and prints, maps and several photographs
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on April 13, 2020 The language of description is English Describing Archives: A Content Standard
This is a DRAFT, work in progress, published on April 13, 2020
Aga Khan Documentation Center Department of Distinctive Collections, MIT Libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 7-238 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 https://libraries.mit.edu/akdc/ Rifat Chadirji Archive
Table of Contents
Summary Information ...... 4 Biographical / Historical ...... 4 Scope and Contents ...... 5 Administrative Information ...... 6 Controlled Access Headings ...... 7 Collection Inventory ...... 7 PROJECTS by TYPE ...... 7 Commercial ...... 7 Cultural ...... 8 Developments, Mixed-Use ...... 9 Educational ...... 9 Furniture ...... 9 Government ...... 9 Other Buildings, Institutions, or Details (for unidentified or unnamed projects) ...... 11 Professional Associations / Organizations ...... 11 Public Monuments ...... 12 Recreational ...... 12 Religious ...... 12 Residential ...... 12 Student Work ...... 14 Urban Planning (more detail to come) ...... 15 Um-Kasr Stores; Um-Qasir Stores, Inside & Outside Free Zones [Baghdad?] - Government of Iraq General Trade Establishment ...... 15 Silos for Iraq Grain Board in various districts around Iraq (Nasiriya, Tikrit, Sulamaniya, and ca. 8 others ...... 15 MAPS and URBAN PLANNING PROJECTS ...... 15 Baghdad - Abu Ghraib Road ...... 15 Baghdad - Circular Intersection [name or location to be determined] ...... 16 Baghdad - Districts Mapping ...... 16 Baghdad - Roads and Property Line Maps ...... 16 Baghdad - Property Numbering ...... 16 Baghdad - Tahrir Square Planning ...... 16 Erbil Castle / Citadel Gate ...... 16
Page 2 | http://libguides.mit.edu/EMMAS_guide | Rifat Chadirji Archive MICROFILMED RECORDS ...... 16 35mm Reels ...... 16 16mm Reels ...... 18 BOXED LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIO OF TWELVE ETCHINGS OF RIFAT CHADIRJI DRAWINGS ...... 18 The Architecture of Rifat Chadirji ...... 18 KAMIL CHADIRJI WORKS AND PROPERTY [RECEIVED WITH THE RIFAT CHADIRJI ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE] ...... 19 House of Kamil Chadirji, alternate name: Kamil Chadirji Residence ...... 19 Photographs - Kamil Chadirji Photography Equipment and Workspaces ...... 19 Eight etchings of Kamil Chadirji photographs in portfolios issued as limited edition, numbered sets in boxes, published by the photographer's son, Rifat Chadirji ...... 20
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Summary Information
Repository: Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries Creator - arc: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Source: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Title: Rifat Chadirji Archive ID: AKDC.2016.0001 Date [inclusive]: ca. 1950 - 1990s Physical Description: 40 Linear Feet. Well over a half of this resource not in its final housing or containers. Some materials are currently in their own designated boxes, other materials are in various and over size files, or in various types of tubes or boxes. Original and/or copies of architectural and urban planning drawings, maps, photographs, prints, and boxed sets of etchings of drawings and photographs.Dimensions vary widely, from smaller than letter size, to oversize (circa 36/48 x 56 inches), to an enormous map 12 x 8 feet in two pieces (top and bottom) 4 foot high strips. Physical Description: 3500 item(s) Language of the Approximately a half of the materials (drawings) in the Rifat Chadirji Material: Archive are in Arabic. English is the language used otherwise, or in addition to Arabic.
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Biographical / Historical
Rifat Chadirji (December 6, 1925 - April 10, 2020), is one of the most influential Iraqi architects of the 20th century. He was also an accomplished photographer, author, teacher, and critic. Chadirji was born in Baghdad in 1926, was educated in the UK, and returned to Iraq upon graduating as an active participant in the modernization of the country, working with notable architects and designers from Europe, the United States, and Iraq including, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, and Mohamed Makiya. Chadirji has dedicated his life to the search for an appropriate contemporary architectural expression synthesizing elements of the rich Islamic cultural heritage with key principles of the international architecture of the 20th century. Chadirji believes that architecture's future lies in lessons learned from its past. His designs are transformations of regional forms that seek to express,
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by means of abstraction, the construction technologies in almost universal use today, while affirming the aesthetic values. In 1986, Mr. Chadirji received an Aga Khan Chairman's Award for Lifetime Achievements. In 2015, Chadirji was awarded the Tamayouz Architectural Lifetime Achievement Award, an award that celebrates the pioneers of Iraqi architecture and is "presented annually to an individual who has had a significant contribution towards the advancement of architecture in Iraq." With this gift, the Center becomes the repository for archives of three leading pioneers of modern architecture in Iraq: Mohamed Makiya, Hisham Munir, and, now, Rifat Chadirji.
Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D. Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Cambridge, MA Author, 7 January 2017
Betsy Baldwin, MLIS, CA Collections Archivist, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Updater, 10 January 2020
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Scope and Contents
This collection includes a large portion of the extant architectural drawings and designs of the late Iraqi architect, Rifat Chadirji (December 6, 1926 – April 10, 2020), and some of the work of his architectural firm, Iraq Consult.
Included are works from throughout his career, from original student drawing compositions from 1950-1951 through to the last planning project in Baghdad with which he was involved circa 1982. Many of the drawings are pencil or ink on tissue, drawing paper, vellum, film, transparencies, or constructed of mixed materials, or they are photo-mechanical copies, or other prints, such as diazotypes, or transparencies, or microfilm of the earliest professional project drawings. The originals of most, or perhaps all of the project drawings recorded on microfilm, were destroyed at the time they were microfilmed in Baghdad prior to 1980.
The whole collection of materials was received directly from Rifat Chadirji from London, after the materials were retrieved from Baghdad. They departed Baghdad in two groups, the first crate contained boxes 3 through 12. The second batch, boxes 1 and 2, which had been separated from the other boxes and arrived from London almost a year later than the first delivery.
Many of the drawings were in fairly good to very good condition, still flexible and not too discolored due to exposure or staining. However, there were various condition issues due to the lack of climate control for most of 35 years. Damages included various amounts of brittleness, various tears, from many tiny ones to some measuring several inches, to a very few drawings with very large rips. Some items are wrinkled, have folds, stains, dirt, or losses to varying degrees.
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There was a large batch of smaller (circa 17 x 22 inch) drawings received in an extremely fragile state. They had suffered serious water damage and ended up dried, but in a single block of layers of drawings with wrinkles and air pockets throughout which had become extremely brittle, and layers seem to be impossible to separated without crumbling the sheets. The content of these drawings is unknown, and cannot be determined except possibly after humidification and/or conservation assessment or treatment.
The entire collection was accepted en masse, every item was kept meaning none of the materials were separated or not retained by the Aga Khan Documentation Center. This means that any gaps in representation, or of the years of work that exist, arrived at this repository to that level of completeness. The gaps of in the material in this collection is incidental, it is not complete, we have what we received.
There are sketches, drafts, proposals, competition submissions, working progress or sets of drawings, and more formal finished works. Represented in the drawings are the wide variety of building types, and projects, on which Rifat Chadirji worked, many of them built. The locations are predominantly in Iraq, with probably the majority from in or near Baghdad, but also projects at sites across Iraq, Erbil, Faluja, Mosul, being only three examples. There were some projects which had multiple sites or intended sites, across many of the districts of Iraq for infrastructure developments such as grain silos for the Grain Board. Other drawings are for work planned or constructed in areas of the United Kingdom, the Middle East, including Lebanon, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar.
Represented in the drawings are residential buildings, from single family homes designed for specific clients, and multi-unit buildings, to palaces. There are monuments and memorials, business/commercial office buildings, government agencies, educational, libraries, mosques, professional organizations, recreational sports complexes, theaters, and other entertainment sites represented in the collection. It is a very broad collection with a wide variety of work and projects, many of which were built.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries
Cambridge, Massachusetts https://libraries.mit.edu/akdc/
Revision Description Drafting, editing, adjustments, and/or completion needed of multiple elements. April 2020
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Conditions Governing Access This collection is open for research use by appointment obtained from the Aga Khan Documentation Center, [email protected]. There may also need to be a review of the materials by the Wunsch Conservation Lab, which might affect timing of access.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926-
Collection Inventory
PROJECTS by TYPE
Commercial Title/Description Instances Banks
National Bank of Abu Dhabi [alternate name?: Abu Dhabi National Bank] Physical Description: 11 item(s) Quantity from box list (6 + 5 drawings).
Rafidain Bank / Al Rafidain Bank, Baghdad Physical Description: 9 item(s) Quantity from box list (7 + 2). circa number of drawings
Rafidain Bank - Shaikh Omar branch Physical Description: 8 item(s) Quantity from box list upon receipt.
Rafidain Sinak Project, alternate name: Rafidain Bank - ray reflection Physical Description: 1 item(s) Quantity from box list upon arrival.
Salihiye Bank, alternate name: Al-Salihiye Bank
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Physical Description: 14 item(s) Quantity from box list (2 + 12), upon receipt. Physical Description: circa 59.4 x 84.1 cm
Offices, Companies, Commercial Buildings
Architects Office Building
Offices and Tobacco Warehouses, alternate name: Tobacco Monopoly Office and Stores Physical Description: 4 item(s) Quantity from box list (1 + 1 + 1 + 1, or four drawings listed singly) upon receipt.
Shaikh Khalifa Building Physical Description: 1 item(s)
National Insurance Company, Mosul
Floor plans Physical Description: 8 item(s) Number from box list received? Actual Count? tbd.
Iraq Consult Office
Elevation, pencil on vellum 1A Physical Description: 3.94 Linear Feet This is in a 10/03/2019 file by itself as housed by the Collections Archivist (temp id) in an oversized file, in Mylar, and later adjusted by Conservation, Mylar removed, buffered paper (acid/lignin free) added to the file under the drawing Linear feet figure represents drawing stored flat.
Cultural Title/Description Instances Bahrain Cinema Physical Description: 20 item(s) Quantity from box list (19 + 1 drawing) upon receipt.
New Theatre of Abu Dhabi, alternate name: National Theatre of Abu Dhabi Physical Description: 25 item(s) Estimated to be about 25 drawings, various materials and states of preservation. Some items are sticking together. Most are on vellum, some in ink, pencil, or collage (pieces with details attached to the vellum). Some very yellowed, brown, or dark grey-green, some brittle, some with tears. Not itemized.
Labourers Guild Theatre [original spelling British; alternate spelling Laborers Guild Theater]
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Physical Description: 1 item(s) `
Developments, Mixed-Use Title/Description Instances Bab Al-Sheikh Development Project, Baghdad Physical Description: 396 item(s) Flat box, not yet given identification number. Physical Description: 50 sheet(s) No container yet, there are ca. 50 sheets (drawing size) which list groups of drawings on the light table in the AKDC.
Educational Title/Description Instances Vocational Training Centre [alternate name?: Vocation Training Institute] Physical Description: 8 item(s) Quantity from box list (1 + 7 drawings by name, respectively) when received
Elevations (w/windows typed A - G) - pencil on vellum tube Box 2 (paper) Roll 5
Furniture Title/Description Instances Furniture Sketch Physical Description: 1 item(s) Quantity from box list (and name of drawing from same).
Government Title/Description Instances Abu Dhabi Cabinet of Ministers' Building [alternate name: Abu Dhabi Council of Minsters' Building] Physical Description: 1 item(s)
Abu Dhabi Police Building Physical Description: 25 item(s) Quantity from box list.
Al-Mafraq Police Department Physical Description: 7 item(s) Quantity from box list.
Council of Ministers' Building, Baghdad, Iraq
As Built Drawings - Architectural and Structural - Block 1 volume 1 Creator: Iraq Consult
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Creator: Engineering Projects (India) Limited Creator - pat: Ministry of Housing & Construction - General Establishment of Buildings Physical Description: 1 volume(s) Physical Description: ca. 42 x 59.4 x 3 cm Language of the Material: English.
As Built Drawings - Architectural and Structural - Block 2 volume 2 Physical Description: 1 volume(s)
Suppliers Drawings volume 3 Creator: Iraq Consult Creator: Engineering Projects (India) Limited Creator - pat: Ministry of Housing & Construction - General Establishment of Buildings Physical Description: 1 volume(s) Language of the Material: English. Scope and Contents
147 drawings
Grain Board of Iraq - 10,000 Tons Grain Silos - IRQ / 261 / 212, tube Box 2 ca. 1972 Roll 2 Creator: Iraq Consult Physical Description: 130 sheet(s) Roll of ca. 130 related drawings tied together at one end from which they were stored in a hanging position at one time. There are notations on and between some of the paper hangers. They are tied together, but the glue has dried out in some cases, so they are not always attached. Drawings are translucent and of various types of vellum (paper) in various conditions. Some are very darkened, most are brittle, some very much so.
A Hall in Kuwait Parliament Physical Description: 1 item(s)
Ministry of Endowments at Bab al-Mu'azzam Physical Description: 1 item(s) Only 1 drawing photographed during initial inventory of projects. Very folded, brittle, and torn. Original drawing in ink with pencil annotations.
Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs Physical Description: 1 item(s)
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Processing Information
Alternate names appear to be: Ministry of Municipal and Village Affairs; Directorate General of Municipal Affairs
Saudi Embassy in Kuwait Physical Description: 1 item(s) Physical Description: ca. 59.4 x 84.1 cm
Other Buildings, Institutions, or Details (for unidentified or unnamed projects) Title/Description Instances Duhok Orphanage Physical Description: 2 item(s) Quantity from box list (1 + 1), upon receipt. Project number
IRQ / 446 / 164
Elevation Physical Description: 76 x 100 cm.
Drawing Physical Description: ca. 40 x 88 cm.
Bar - detail, elevations, plan item Box 2 Roll 5
Standard boiler room and workshop Physical Description: 7 item(s) Quantity from box list.
Al-Badi Building - Abu Dhabi Physical Description: 66 item(s)
Adma Building, Abu Dhabi Physical Description: 28 item(s)
Detail drawings (unidentified projects)
Professional Associations / Organizations Title/Description Instances Aviation Association Physical Description: 8 item(s) Quantity from box list when it arrived. Physical Description: ca. 29.7 x 42 cm
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Cultural Unions Foundation
Engineers Association, Kuwait Physical Description: 2 item(s) Quantity from box list, received on arrival.
Public Monuments Title/Description Instances Labourers Monument; alternate spelling Laborers Monument Physical Description: 2 item(s)
Unknown Soldier Monument
Recreational Title/Description Instances Sporting Facilities
Al-Qadsiya Sporting Club Physical Description: 25 item(s) Quantity from box list (2 names listed together as 25 drawings).
Arabi Sporting Club, Baghdad Physical Description: There are a few drawings, circa 24 x 36 inches.
Kuwait Sporting Club
Religious Title/Description Instances London Central Mosque, , 1969 Physical Description: 1 item(s) Physical Description: circa 75 x 100 cm
Residential Title/Description Instances Al-Hamad Residence , 1967 Physical Description: 1 item(s) Physical Description: circa 28 x 43 cm
Rifat Chadirji Residence, 7 Khansa Street, Baghdad Physical Description: 1 sheet(s) Physical Description: 59 x 84 cm
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Physical Description: This item has 6 drawings (plans, elevations, sections), all on one sheet.
Mahmood Residence; Hadeeb Haj Mahmood Residence Physical Description: 1 item(s) Physical Description: A diazotype (printed copy) of an elevation of the building.
House of Mahmud Uthman / Mahmud Ahmad Uthman, 1965 Physical Description: 3 sheet(s) 3 drawings known, as of 3/9/2018, may find more
First Floor Plan, Ground Floor Plan, Scale 1/50 Physical Description: 57 x 75 centimetres (height 22.5 x width 29.5 inches)
Plan Physical Description: 61 x 75 cm.(h. 24 x w. 29.5 in.)
Section A-A, Section B-B, Scale 1/50 Physical Description: 62.2 x 76.2 cm. (h. 24.5 x w. 30 in.)
South Elevation, West Elevation, North Elevation, East Elevation Physical Description: 50.5 x 75 cm. (h. 20 x w. 29.5 in.) Scale 1/50
Alousi, Farouk / Farooq Al-Aloosi Residence Physical Description: 1 item(s) Quantity from box list. Physical Description: 55 x 75 cm. Project number
IRQ / 812 / 110
Ismael Fayad Residence, ca. 1968
Extension to Living Room, 1968-10-05 tube Box 2 Roll 5
Rest House, undated
Rest House AirConditioning Layout tube Box 2 Roll 5
House Type 1B, Air Conditioning Layout tube Box 2 Roll 5
House Type 1A, Air Conditioning Layout tube Box 2 Roll 5
Villa Hakim - Rabieh - Lebanon, circa 1993-1997
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Creator: Rais & Jamal. Architects & Engineers Physical Description: 25 item(s)
Villa Halat Physical Description: 19 item(s) Quantity from box list.
The Iraqi President Residence Physical Description: 1 item(s) Quantity from box list upon receipt
Sayed Hadeeb Residence Physical Description: 1 item(s) Quantity from box list.
House of Professor Ya'sub Rafiq, 1965 Creator - arc: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Language of the Material: Arabic. Controlled Access Headings: • Residential buildings • Drawings
Ground plan, Plan No. 1, Scale 1/50 Physical Description: 61 x 70.5 cm. (h. 24 x w. 27.75 in.) Language of the Material: Arabic. General
Office of Architects 'Abd Allah Ihasan Kamil Rif'at Kamil al-Chadirji Ihsan Muhammad(?)
Back Elevation, Front Elevation, Plan No. 2, Scale 1/50 Physical Description: 61 x 70.5 cm. (h. 24 x w. 27.75 in.) Language of the Material: Arabic.
House of Mrs. Sahira Ja'far, 1964
East Elevation of Car Park, North Elevation of Car Port, First Floor Plan, Garden Layout, Scale 1/50 and 1/100, 1964 September 8 Creator - drm: Arakelian, D. Physical Description: 55.9 x 75 cm. (h. 22 x w. 29.5 in.)
Student Work tube 201 Title/Description Instances Civic Centre (1B2-1B9; and 1B11), 1951 Physical Description: 69 x 102 cm
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5 Bedford Row tube 201 othertype Physical Description: 1 item(s) AKDC.2016.0001.0005pl Physical Description: 52 x 72.5 cm
Group of drawings (1C2-1C6; and 1C8-1C12), 1951
Loggia in the Italian Embassy, London tube 201 othertype Physical Description: 1 item(s) AKDC.2016.0001.0006pl Physical Description: 53 x 74.5 cm
Terrace House Sandling Wood Estate tube 201 othertype Physical Description: 51 x 66 cm AKDC.2016.0001.0007pl
3 Unidientified drawings (may relate to either the Civic Centre tube 201 othertype 1B..., or the Group of drawings 1C... both also in Subseries 1.13, AKDC.2016.0001.0004pl01 1951 Physical Description: ca. 57.5 x 77.5 cm
Urban Planning (more detail to come) Title/Description Instances Socio-Economic studies for development of tourism in the North of Iraq Physical Description: 2 item(s)
Um-Kasr Stores; Um-Qasir Stores, Inside & Outside Free Zones [Baghdad?] - Government of Iraq General Trade Establishment Physical Description: 184 sheet(s) Drawings rolled and stored in 3 square boxes Physical Description: 3 tube(s) 3 square tubes of drawings 6 x 32", 5 x 32", and 4 x 32"
Silos for Iraq Grain Board in various districts around Iraq (Nasiriya, Tikrit, Sulamaniya, and ca. 8 others Physical Description: 250 sheet(s) Physical Description: 4 tube(s) Square tubes 4 square tubes for rolls 6", 5", and 2 are 4" box tubes, all are 32" long.
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MAPS and URBAN PLANNING PROJECTS
Baghdad - Abu Ghraib Road Physical Description: 117 item(s) Quantity from box list.
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Physical Description: 56 item(s) [Additional items not on list?]
Baghdad - Circular Intersection [name or location to be determined]
Baghdad - Districts Mapping
Baghdad - Roads and Property Line Maps
Baghdad - Property Numbering Physical Description: 25 item(s) ca. 25 drawings, not yet contained separately, container not resolved.
Baghdad - Tahrir Square Planning Creator - arc: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Source: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Physical Description: 1 box(es) Square, telescoping, buffered,acid & lignen free, tube for rolled materials. 2 drawings on vellum in one tube Controlled Access Headings: • Urban planning • Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Title/Description Instances Tahrir Square - monuments and roadways drawing - plan. Physical Description: 131.3 x 99 cm (51.75 x 39 in)
Tahrir Square - monuments and roadways drawing - plan and sections. Physical Description: 131.3 x 99 cm (51.75 x 39 in)
Erbil Castle / Citadel Gate
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MICROFILMED RECORDS Creator - arc: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Physical Description: 8 Reel(s) In metal canisters, some have some rust, some Kodak, some unidentified. 35mm Microfilm reels, have a slight vinegar scent to them and should be digitized as soon as possible. Reels are taped together films by project, often tape is either sticky and has affected the film, or is dry and brittle and loose Language of the Material: Arabic.
35mm Reels
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Physical Description: 8 Reel(s) Processing Information
These reels retain the numbers they were given prior to accessioning by the AKDC. All but one 35mm reel has a paper list of content for the reel in Arabic. The paper list is missing (torn edge is visible inside cover) for reel ______.
They are being transcribed, tranlated and, and transliterated by a native speaker of Arabic, Ali Khodr, a former MIT-AKPIA student from Lebanon. Content will not be confirmed until after the reels have been scanned.
Title/Description Instances Reel 1 Language of the Material: Arabic.
IRQ/17/143 | Project Water to Faluja [?see translation note, below] | Mashrou' Asalat Ma' al-Fallujah Material Specific Details: One letter is unclear in the Arabic, one word could not be translated, so the translation is uncertain. The word transliterated as Asalat might be incorrect and would change the meaning of the phrase. The words project, water, Fallujah are certain.
IRQ/320/144 | Transportation Police | Shurtat al-Muroor w al- Naqliyat
IRQ/18/73 | Army Canal Bridges | Jusur Qanat al-Jaysh
IRQ/26/124 | Livestock | Al-Tharwah al-Hayawaniyyah
IRQ/818/34 | Dr. Mohammad Nasser | al-Doktor Muhammad Nasser
IRQ/818/30 | Al-Jorbah-ji Garage | Karaje al-Jorbah-ji
IRQ/46/124 | Veterinary Hospital in Ba'akubah | Al- Mustashfah al-Baytary fi Ba'akoubah
IRQ/26/124 | Livestock and Veterinary | Al-Tharwah al- Hayawaniyyah w al-Baytarah
IRQ/724/104 | Iraqi Scientific Complex | Al-Mujama'a al- A'lmi al-Iraqi
Reel 2 Language of the Material: Arabic.
Reel 3 Language of the Material: Arabic.
Reel 4 Language of the Material: Arabic.
Reel 5
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Language of the Material: Arabic.
Reel 6 Language of the Material: Arabic.
Reel 7 Language of the Material: Arabic.
Reel 8 Language of the Material: Arabic. Lack of list for this reel
The list which accompanied this reel has not been located. The top of the list was glued inside the film can, but the rest of it was torn off. We must wait until the reel is scanned to be able to list the contents.
16mm Reels, Physical Description: 22 Reel(s) 18 numbered reels, 4 unnumbered [given reel identification letters A-D], all of these appear to be different, individual reels, however, multiples exist of some reels, and the 4 unnamed may be duplicates also. This won't be known until the content has been scanned.
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BOXED LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIO OF TWELVE ETCHINGS OF RIFAT CHADIRJI DRAWINGS, Language of the Material: English, Arabic. Processing Information
UNDER REVIEW - BOX NUMBERING
The Architecture of Rifat Chadirji, box 22 Physical Description: Boxed and numbered, limited edition box 23 portfolio and set of etchings of drawings of buildings (12 etchings and 4 cover and introductory pages). box 29 Processing Information box 33
[Collections Archivist to review numbering of boxes. box 34 Perhaps using the limited edition number is not the best number to use as a box number. Could use sequential box box 35 numbers and use the edition number as further detail?]
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box 36
box 37
box 38
42
box 46
box 47
box 49
box 50
box 51
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KAMIL CHADIRJI WORKS AND PROPERTY [RECEIVED WITH THE RIFAT CHADIRJI ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE]
House of Kamil Chadirji, alternate name: Kamil Chadirji Residence, Creator - arc: Qidh, Badri Physical Description: 4 item(s) Physical Description: Elevation 29.5 x 85 cm Elevation 29.5 x 95 cm Section 29.5 x 85 cm Section 29.5 x 94.5 cm Scope and Contents
4 photocopies of plans - elevations and sections of Baghdad House
Controlled Access Headings: • Chadirji, Kamil, 1897-1968
folder K.C. Photographs - Kamil Chadirji Photography equipment Equipment and Workspaces, photos Source - fmo: Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926- Processing Information
In addition to being the former owner of the photography equipment and location where these items were photographed, Kamil Chadirji may also be the photogapher, or perhaps his son, Rifat Chadirji was the photographer of this equipment. The photographer of these prints is not currently clear. However it is to be noted that neither
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of them, not the father nor the son, are in any of the photographs.
Controlled Access Headings: • Chadirji, Rifat Kamil, 1926-
box Number Eight etchings of Kamil Chadirji for piece / photographs in portfolios issued as limited within edition edition, numbered sets in boxes, published of ca. 80 sets by the photographer's son, Rifat Chadirji, Physical Description: 8 item(s) Portfolios of 8 etchings of Kamil Chadirji photographs, textual information, numbered, limited edition sets, in a flat clam shell box.. Physical Description: Boxed Limited Edition Set of Etchings: 8 Photographs by Kamil Chadirji, published by Rifat Chadirji while residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. Language of the Material: English, Arabic.
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