Maath Alousi

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Maath Alousi , also Maath Al-Alousi, (* 1938 in Baghdad , Iraq ) is an Iraqi architect, urban planner, painter, photographer and author who named Mohamed Saleh Makiya , Rifat Chadirji, Kathan Al-Madfai and Hisham Munir for his life's work in 2018 was honored with the renowned Tamayouz Excellence Award , making it one of the Iraqi pioneers of moderate modern architecture in the Middle East .

Life

Maath Alousi grew up in Baghdad. From 1956 to 1957 he took courses at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Baghdad . Having to 1961 three months a year as an assistant in the architectural firm Alfred Oswald, 1957 Frankfurt , worked, he studied from 1961 to 1963, the Technical University of the Middle East (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara , Turkey , and 1964 at the AA School of Architecture , London , in the Development and Tropical Studies Department ( Otto Königsberger ) Architecture.

From 1964 to 1974 he was a partner, chief architect and manager of Iraq Consult, Baghdad, and from 1964 to 1971 department head for educational institutions and public works at the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, Baghdad.

In 1974 Alousi founded the architecture, planning and consulting firm TEST-Alousi (Alousi Associates Technical Studies) based in Beirut , Lebanon, and nine regional offices in the Middle East. In 1980, Alousi returned to Baghdad at the invitation of the Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji, then lawyer for the mayor of Baghdad, to implement and carry out his successful competition entry "Haifa Street Development and Al-Karkh Development Project".

Others

Alousi is a member of the Iraqi Architects Society and the Iraqi Engineers Union, teaches at the Higher Institute of Technology in Baghdad and at the University of Technology in Baghdad, where he is also an external examiner for M.Sc. Degree programs in urban design is decreasing, and lives in Cyprus.

Work (selection)

  • Cultural Heritage Center Salalah, Oman (1979)
  • Central Bank Oman (1979)
  • Al-Qabas Print Shop in Kuwait (1978)
  • Haifa Street Development - Al Karkh Development project (1980-1985)
  • Baghdad State Mosque 1982/83 (competition with Issam El-Said, Manfred Sundermann)
  • Aya building in Al-Saadoun, Baghdad, 1986
  • Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Muscat, Oman, (1986)
  • Al-Waziriya hospital, Baghdad, 1989
  • Alousi Kubus House, Baghdad (1991)

Fonts

  • The Visual Diary of an Arab Architect: Maath Alousi , Third World Center for research, SS Damlouji London (Ed.): 1983
  • Nostos, a Tale of a Street in Baghdad , Rimal Publication: 2012
  • Visual Narrative of an Arab Architect Maath Alousi , Al-Adib Publishing, Amman: 2015
  • Topos, a Tale of Time and Place ”Al Kamel , Verlak, Beirut: 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuff member: Iraqi architect Maath Alousi receives the 2018 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award. In: ARCHITECT. December 18, 2018, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rima Alsammarae: Iraqi architect, author and artist maath Alousi reflects on today's 'uneducated architect'. In: ARCHITECT. March 24, 2019, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  3. ^ Haifa Street Development Baghdad, Iraq. In: ARCHNET. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Al-Karkh Development Project. In: ARCHNET. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  5. ^ State mosque competition, Baghdad, Iraq. In: ARCHNET. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Alousi Cube House Baghdad, Iraq. In: ARCHNET. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Alousi, Maath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi architect, urban planner, painter, photographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad , Iraq