Mohamed. Makiya is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Mohamed. Makiya as Iraqi architect (1914-2015).
Mohamed. Makiya was born at Baghdad in 1914. His recorded nationality is Iraq. He trained at University of Cambridge.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, university teacher and urban planner.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Iraq shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Mohamed. Makiya died in 2015, aged 101. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Cambridge
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