{"id":524,"date":"2016-10-21T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=524"},"modified":"2016-10-21T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:52:17","slug":"hisham-munir-archive-selections-on-archnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2016\/10\/21\/hisham-munir-archive-selections-on-archnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hisham Munir Archive: Selections on Archnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_532\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"wp-image-532 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hisham Munir\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-1143x1536.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-1524x2048.jpg 1524w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-624x839.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/AN02026-scaled.jpg 1905w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hisham Munir<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Selections from the archive of Iraqi architect <a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/1286\">Hisham Munir<\/a>, are now <a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/851\">available on Archnet<\/a>. \u00a0Munir was a founder of Department of Architecture at the University of Baghdad.\u00a0In 1957 his firm partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/196\">The Architects Collaborative <\/a>(TAC) to build parts of the massive campus of University City in Baghdad, the first of many collaborations between Munir and Associates and TAC. His best known work includes the University of Mosul\u00a0(1956), the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agricultural Complex\u00a0<\/a>(1975),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/851\/sites\/14908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Iraqi Reinsurance Company in Baghdad<\/a>\u00a0(1976), Sheraton Hotels in Baghdad and Basra (1981), the Al-Sabah Complex in Kuwait (1976), and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown Soldier Monument\u00a0<\/a>(1982).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like his fellow Iraqi architects Mohamed Makiya and Rifat Chadirji, Hisham Munir has donated his archives to AKDC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/collections\/\">AKDC Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selections from the archive of Iraqi architect Hisham Munir, are now available on Archnet. \u00a0Munir was a founder of Department of Architecture at the University of Baghdad.\u00a0In 1957 his firm partnered with The Architects Collaborative (TAC) to build parts of the massive campus of University City in Baghdad, the first of many collaborations between Munir and Associates and TAC. His best known work includes the University of Mosul\u00a0(1956), the\u00a0Agricultural Complex\u00a0(1975),\u00a0the Iraqi Reinsurance Company in Baghdad\u00a0(1976), Sheraton Hotels in Baghdad and Basra (1981), the Al-Sabah Complex in Kuwait (1976), and the\u00a0Unknown Soldier Monument\u00a0(1982).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[269],"tags":[318,320],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archnet-news","tag-archives","tag-archnet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}