"City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952-1982" Exhibition
The Center for Architecture
This event has ended.
The history of modern architecture in Baghdad has been relatively underexplored and is still not well known. Though specialists in Iraq, and in exile throughout the world, have already undertaken detailed analyses of the topic, many of these studies have been difficult to access throughout Europe and the United States. The destruction of war has also made it impossible to revocer the complete modernist record of Iraq. While it is not the definitive work on the subject, City of Mirages tells a story about Baghdad and the architects who were invited to participate in the making of its modern image--a story that is vanishing, and whose last witnesses and participants disappear day by day.
Curator: Pedro Azara
Exhibition Design: Rumors
Media
Schedule
from February 22, 2012 to May 05, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-22 from 18:00 to 20:00