Architecture

Department of Architecture Engineering

The Department of Architecture was established in 1959 in the
domains of the College of Engineering in Baghdad University to get B.
Sc degree in the Architectural Sciences.
More than two thousands architects have graduated since the
establishment of the department until 2005-2006. Many of them could
fulfill creative architectural achievements in different state sectors.
Furthermore, a great number of them have become distinguished in the
Arab and international architectural fields.
The numbers of acceptance for the primary study range from 50-60
students per year as a minimum number in addition to the acceptance of
foreign and Arab students, who constitute 10% of total number of the
accepted students. The period of undergraduate studies is 5 academic
years, each consists two semesters.
The post-graduate studies were introduced to get the degree M. Sc. in
the Architecture for two academic years at the end of the seventies of the
past century. The number of acceptance of the Master stage has increased
reaching more than 12 students in 2002-2003 distributed into three
specializations as the following:
- The environment and technology of architecture.
- Theory of architecture and Islamic architecture.
- Housing and urban design.
Similarly, the Doctoral study has been introduced to get Ph. D. in
Architecture since the eighties of the last century and the annual number
of acceptance has increased to average 4 students.
The Ph.D. curriculum period is three academic years as minimum and
it includes a group of specializations in the philosophy, history, sciences,
theories of architecture and Islamic architecture, beside technology
sciences, cities development, urban development, and housing issues.
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The heads of the department

No. Name of the head
Date
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
1959-1968
1968-1972
1972-1972
1972-1973
1973-1974
1975-1980
1980-1986
1986-1987
1987-1989
1989-1991
1991-2001
2001 - present time
Dr. Mohammed Makia

Assist. Prof. Husham Muneer
Assist. Prof. Hazim Majeed Al-Tak
Dr. Abdul Salam Farman
Assist. Prof. Nasir Al-Asadi
Dr. Rofael Wahba
Dr. Amanueal Hana Mikho
Prof. Talib Hameed Al-Talib
Dr. Munther Al-Adammy
Dr. Ihssan Fathi
Assist. Prof. Hussam Salman Al-Rawi
Dr. Bahjat Rashad Shahin
Staff of the Architectural Engineering Department

No.
Name
General Specialty
Architectural Engineering
4.
Talib Hameed AlTalib

Mudafer Ali Hasson
Mohammed Al-Jabri
Saba Jabar Neama
Abdulah Al-Khafaji
Ghada Mousa Rizoqi
5.
Bahjat Rashad Shahin Architectural Engineering
6.
Hazim Majeed Jirjees

Salih Al-Tek
Sabah Fakher Al-Deen
Abdul Qadir Noori
Areej Kareem Majeed
Al-Sad Khan
Nadia Abdul Majeed
Al-Salam
1.
2.
3.
7.
8.
9.
Scientific
Degree
Ph.D., Prof.
Ph.D., Prof.
Ph.D., Prof.
Ph.D., Prof.
Ph.D., Prof. (Head
of the Department)
M.Sc., Assist. Prof.
Fine Arts-Sculpture
Ph.D., Assist. Prof.
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No.
10.
11.
12.
Name
General Specialty
Huda Abdul Sahib Hasan

Al- Alwan
Abbas Abdul Razaq
Mohammed Kuba
Yasir Hikmat Abdul
Majeed Mahmoud
Scientific
Degree
M.Sc., Lect.
M.Sc., Lect.
13.
Rand Hazim Aga
M.Sc., Lect.
14.
Abdul Jawad Hasan Aziz Architectural Engineering
Ph.D., .Lect.
15.
Amjad Mahmmod
Abdullah Muhsin AlBadri
Kadhim faris Dhumad
Al-essawi
Mohammed Rida Majeed
Mohammed Al-Jalabi
Amar Salim Dawood AlDulaimi
Nisreen Abdu Razaq
Ibrahim Al-Juburi
Ph.D., .Lect.
Ph.D., .Lect.
M.Sc., Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
20.
Mohammed Ala Al-Deen Architectural Engineering
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
21.
Haider Asa'd Abul Razaq

Jafer Al-Sa'di
Rafi Mosees Mnaskan
Mosees
Maysa' Ziara
Mohammed
Tara Abdu Razaq Ali
Mardan Al-Barazanji
Amar Salih Ashoor AlTimimi
16.
17.
18.
19.
Interior Design
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
26.
Durgham Mizhir Majeed Architectural Engineering
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
27.
Roni Sami Mansour

Abona
Gada Mohammed Ismael
Abdul Razaq kamona
Anfal Mu'ayad Ma'yoof
Al-Hijiat
Sharq Jafer Hadi AlYasiri
22.
23.
24.
25.
28.
29.
30.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
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No.
Name
31.
Ali Basim Abdul

Karim
Layth Muthana
Khaleel Fahmi
Wijdan Haseeb
Khamees
32.
33.
General Specialty
Scientific
Degree
Interior Design
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
Linguistics- College of ArtsM.Sc., Assist.Lect.

English Language
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
34.
Rana Majeed Yaseen
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
35.
Usama Abdul Munim

Khirbeet
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
36.
Hisham Alaa' Husain
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
37.
Anas Hameed Majeed
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
38.
Ahmed Khider Abdul

Rida
Civil Engineering
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
39.
Zaynab Khalid Hussein Architectural Engineering
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
40.
Sajida Khadim
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
41.
Asmaa Sadiq Abdul

Kareem
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
42.
Mayada Hikmat Yousif Architectural Engineering
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
43.
Lynor Sa'ad Yousif
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
44.
Huda Sabah Fakher

Al-Deen
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
45.
Sali Fakhri Khalaf
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
46.
Muhand Hilal Muhsin
M.Sc., Assist.Lect.
Engineering Staff
No. Name
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Sura Sa'ad Aziz

Maryam Yousif Na'om
Aseel Abdul Haleem Ahmed
Inas Hasan Shaker
Fawziya Raheem
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Administration Staff
No
The names
1.
Aseel Abdul Hameed
2.
Zaynab Salih Al-Beirmani
3.
Goroop Kamil Mohammed
4.
Eman Subhi
5.
Rabab Galib
6.
Ayser Mahmmod Mizher
7.
Rana Talib
8.
Zahra' Adnan Fadil
The Undergraduate Curriculum

The annual system of study is followed in the department. The
following is the curriculum of the department for the five years of study.
1st Semester
Hours/Week
FIRST YEAR
Code
Subject
Arc 101
Arc 102
Arc 103
Architectural Design
Architectural Graphics
Freehand Drawing
Principles of Art and
Architecture
Building Construction I
Mathematics
Computer programming
I
Arabic Language
English Language I
Human Rights
Arc 104
Arc 105
G.S 106
G.S 107
G.S 108
G.E 109
G.S 110
Total
Units Theo.
2 nd Semester
Hours/Week
Tuto.
Lab.
Theo. Tuto.
Lab.
12
4
3
2
1
-
8
2
4
2
1
-
8
2
4
4
4
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
41
16
16
16
16
Total hours per week
32
32
Note:
Summer Training
1. Architectural Design:
Preparing a report about some architectural details of traditional building
with illustrated drawings and sections.
2. Free Hand:
Graphical paintings with water and oil colors should be done for
traditional buildings in traditional districts in Baghdad and other
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governorates in Iraq, and it should be submitted with report at the
beginning of the next year.
1 st Semester
Hours/Week
SECOND YEAR
Code
Subject
Arc 201
12
Arc 202
Architectural Graphics
Arc 203
Freehand Drawing
Arc 204
Building Construction II
Arc 205
Arc 206
Structure I
Arc 207
G.S 208
G.E 209
G.S 210
History of Architecture I
Logic and Design
Methodology
Computers II
English Language II
Freedom and
Democracy
Total
Units Theo.
2nd Semester
Hours/Week
Tuto.
Lab.
4
4
2
2
2
2
4
2
1
2
2
-
1
2
2
-
43
16
35
19
Theo. Tuto.
14
Lab.
19
33
Note:
Summer Training
1. Architectural Design:
A field study for documenting a remarkable building (measure work and
drawing plans, sections and elevations) in Baghdad or one of the
governorates of Iraq. The study should be submitted at the beginning of
the next year.
2. Free Hand:
Graphical paintings with water and oil colors should be done for the same
field study and submitted with it.
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1st Semester
Hours/Week
THIRD YEAR
Code
2 nd Semester
Hours/Week
Subject
Units
Theo.
Tuto.
Arc 301 Architectural Design

Building Construction
Arc 302
III
Arc 303 Structure II
14
10
Arc 304 Principles of Planning

History of
Arc 305
Architecture II
C.E. 306 Sanitary Services
Air-Conditioning
G.S 307
Services
G.S 308 Lighting Services
Computer
G.S 309
Programming III
Methods of
Arc 310
Conservation
2
2
Total
Lab. Theo. Tuto. Lab.

10
39
15
16
15
16
31
31
Note:
Summer Training
The students should practice a designing work in a certain designing institutes for six
weeks.
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1st Semester
Hours/Week
FOURTH YEAR
Code
Subject
Interior Design
Landscape Design
Advanced Building
Technologies
Housing Planning
Housing
Theories f Architecture
Islamic Arab
Architecture
Architecture and
Climate
Acoustics of
Architecture
Theories of Urban
Design
Surveying
Arc 401
Arc 402
Arc 403
Arc 404
Arc 405
Arc 406
Arc 407
Arc 408
Arc 409
Arc 410
Arc 411
C.E 412
Total
Units Theo. Tuto.
2nd Semester
Hours/Week
Lab.
Theo. Tuto.
Lab.
14
2
2
2
1
-
10
3
-
2
1
2
2
4
2
2
2
2
42
14
15
15
13
10
3
29
28
FIFTH YEAR
1st Semester
Hours/Week
2nd Semester
Hours/Week
Code
Subject
Arc 501
Arc 502
Thesis Project
15
65
15
36
11
15
11
15
Arc 503
Arc 504
Arc 505
Arc 506
Arc 507
Arc 508
Arc 509
Specification and
Estimation
Profession Practice
Theories of
Theories of
Architectural
Criticism
Contemporary Iraqi
Architecture
Contemporary Arab
Architecture
Philosophy of
Architecture
Total
Units Theo. Tuto.
26
90
Lab.
Theo. Tuto. Lab.
26
The Syllabus
The following is the syllabus of the subjects in the department
curriculum.
FIRST YEAR
ARC 101 Architectural Design
Identify the basic fundamentals of the two dimensional design: the
concept, elements, basic fundamentals of composition and kinds of
compositions, using the production technology by using collage to
facilitate the idea.
ARC 102 Architectural Graphics
This subject aims at building and developing the student's
expressionistic skills. Moreover, it aims at training the student to use
different materials and technologies in the presentation of section and
elevation plans. In the second half of the second term, the basic principles
of the three dimensional drawings are identified especially the
axonometric and isometric fundamentals with presentation techniques by
using the pencil, collage, color pencils, and on the principles of
presentation by using the poster and water colors.
(Architectural model making)
ARC 103 Freehand Drawing
The student is identified with the most important techniques used in
the fundamentals of freehand drawing and the in the design process such
as pencils, pens, color pencils, water colors, poster colors and oil colors.
Note:
The summer works are accompanied by complementary home

works.
Examination at the end of the first term
The student submits all his summer and home works in a
technical portfolio and the student's term is evaluated effort
The work of the spring holiday does not exceed three works.
ARC 104 Principles of Art and Architecture
The subject aims to develop the abilities of analysis and criticism
through establishing the necessary principles, reinforcing and studying
the concepts of space, mass, and shape from different sides, acquainting
with the most important critical discussions which tackled architecture as
a mongrel subject that consists of science and art.
The subject also aims at the detailed explanation of the artistic trends in
the 19th and the 20th century and relating them to architecture.
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ARC 105 Building Construction I
The subject aims at identifying the First year students in the
Department of Architectural Engineering with the different building
materials on the local building materials and the related building works
(bonding and setting up these materials together). The curriculum is
sequenced through two academic terms as the following:
Note:
The academic term includes site visits and test.

GS 106 Mathematics
The aim is to provide the student with a general idea about
mathematics as basic principles to the student of the College of
Engineering and adding some engineering applications which will benefit
the student.
Note: The term includes examinations and quick tests.
GS 107 Computer Programming I
The aim is to provide the student with a general idea about computer
as basic principles such as Power point program, what is power point, and
how to enter the program.
GS 108 Arabic Language
The aim of studying Arabic is to develop the student's linguistic
efficiency and to enable them to express their ideas and feeling in fluent
and well-spoken Arabic devoid of mistakes, vernacular and non-Arabic
accents through adopting the simplest methods.
G.E 109 English Language
The subject aims to develop the students' abilities in dealing with
English language, pronunciation, conservation and writing concepts.
GS 110 Human Rights
The subject deals with Islamic and the democratic system, in addition
to the concept of the democratic government and people's practice of
sovereignty.
SECOND YEAR
The second year of architectural study represents an important
transitional stage where the student is transferred from the stage of
preparing abstract identified designs (represented in the First year) to a
more comprehensive stage in its definition of architecture as being
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(usefulness, firmness, delight). It also concentrates on the concept of local
identity and integration with the context and urban scene.
Note:The term includes two quick tests for a small design problem.
ARC 202 Architectural Graphics

The subject aims to develop the students' architectural graphic
drawing skills as tools to express their designing ideas and to present
them in a suitable way. The subject represents a complement of what the
student has received in the first year in the same subject and with special
concentration on the three dimensional drawings like the perspective and
isometric.
ARC 203 Freehand Drawing
Developing the student's skills in using watercolors, poster, pastel,
oil colors in advanced techniques, Developing the student's ability to
control the complex shapes in advanced techniques, A practical
practice of how to present the projects through perspectives by using
colors and to make use of them in the subjects of design.
ARC 204 Building Constructions II
Identify the student with some aspects of the technical systems
concerning building information which the architect must be aware of
to develop his design ability. The student is identified with the
building and structural systems in general.
ARC 205 Structure I
The subject aims at identifying the student with the subject of forces
and their analysis and distribution on the facilities as well as knowing the
reactions in the buildings, presenting a summary about trusses and their
types and the distribution of force on them and their structural behavior.
Note: The lectures include tests and periodical examinations.
ARC 206 History of Architecture I
The study aims at knowing the evolution of the first civilizations such
as the Mesopotamian architecture and the valley of the Nile architecture
and their architectural patterns and settlement. The subject also follows
up their architectural development until the Islamic conquests.
ARC 207 Logic and Design Methodology
The subject aims to make the student aware of the several
specializations and subjects that have an important role in the designing
process with the clarification of the basic designing principles, and the
processes and factors that are involved in a design act.
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Note: These lectures, the tests and final examination above are in
English.
GS 208 Computer Programming II
Starting with Auto CAD program and presenting a simple explanation
about the early stages of the program and its fields of use.
GS 209 English Language II
The student continues what he has received in the first year. Emphasis
is made on the necessity to encourage the student to converse and use the
language and to build up the vocabulary items, concentration on writing
and reading passages especially the architectural ones.
GS 210 Freedoms and Democracy
This subject covers the definition of freedom starting from the kinds
public of freedom (religious, intellectual, residence, political freedom and
the right of nomination and voting).
THIRD YEAR
The third academic year is considered the final stage of the database in
the field of architectural engineering where the student identifies the
compound and multifunctional projects concerning their used and
different service spaces. The structural decisions and the technology of
implementation are considered at the top of the designing presentation
through choosing short and middle range projects which require structural
courses and which are able to be implemented by reinforced concrete
structures or iron structures.
ARC 302 Building Constructions III
This subject aims to identify the student with the importance of the
building structural skeleton and its close relationship with the designing
process where choosing the suitable structural skeleton for each building
interacts with the building's function and exterior final form.
The subject includes theoretical lectures and applied projects and three
term examinations and daily practical examinations inside studios.
ARC 303 Structures II
The first part of the subject of structures is specified to cover the
structural designs of the buildings designed by using reinforced concrete
and through presenting the general concept of the basics of forces
distribution, the method of finding the static of the structure, the stresses
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calculations, the strain of the used iron and concrete with analyzing the
basics of concrete lintels, ceilings and columns.
ARC 304 Principles of Planning
The subject aims to identify the student with the developments that
happened in the history of cities development and growth through the
passage of time including the social, economical and technical effects
which have led to the foundation of growth and change in cities starting
from the ancient civilizations and ending with contemporary cities.
ARC 305 History of Architecture II
The subject items are illustrated through the adoption of the
comparative analysis method and the distinction among the various
architectural styles throughout history on the bases: The geographical
location, the historical values, the climatic and geological description, the
adopted structural methods, the specifications of ceilings, and other of
arts and emphasizing the basics of the urban gatherings of different
civilizations.
CE 306 Sanitary Services
The aim is to identify the architectural student with the basic
principles of designing sanitary services (designing cold and hot water
supply, draining water, heavy and rain waters, in addition to the basics of
refuse collecting and discharging of the low-rise and multistory
buildings).
CE 307 Air-Conditioning Services
Identifying the student with the basic principles of air-conditioning
buildings and the most internationally and locally reliable systems and
attempting to identify the student with the various methods of calculating
the requirements of the central and secondary air-conditioning and to
check their systems in summer and winter times.
CE 308 Lighting Services
The subject aims to identify the student with the main principles of the
electrical systems (lighting system, power distribution system,
extinguishing system, etc.) and the methods of calculating the electrical
power in relation to the coverage of building requirements like lighting,
air-conditioning, and sanitary services.
GS 309 Computer Programming III
The subject starts with acquainting the students with the 3D studio
program and identifying its components, zooming, browsing, choosing
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the element, edit tools, merging models, applications on model merging
and importing and exporting models.
ARC 310 Methods of Architectural Conservation
Identify the student with an important and vital subject which is the
subject of the conservation of the architectural tradition. This subject is a
scientific field specialized in dealing with the aspects of protecting,
conserving and rehabilitating the buildings and sites that have
archeological historical distinguished value.
FOURTH YEAR
ARS 401 Architectural Design
The curriculum of the architectural design of the fourth year aims to
enlarge the architectural student's recognitions and to depart from the
thinking of a single building of a limited function to the general outline of
the city and the student identifies how to relate the single project with the
city urban fabric through the identification of the basics of dealing with
the urban design and connecting it to the city urban fabric and the
stretching of the visual and physical axes found in them and the impact of
the urban fabric characteristics.
ARC 402 Interior Design
The aim is to identify the students with the most specialized aspects
involved in interior design from those aspects in architectural design in
general. This is done on two parts:
The theoretical part: the intellectual, cultural and artistic trends are taught
especially those overlapping with the industrial design, craftsmen
production, materials and those trends that overlap with the artistic
intellect of ornamenting, services and light systems, pieces of furniture.
The practical part: the term includes two projects: one of them lasts for
four-five weeks and aims to enlarge the students' imagination and
creativeness at the intellectual levels and using the basic interior design
elements in shape, color, light and furniture.
ARC 403 Landscape Design
The aim of this subject is the identification of the basic principles of
designing the exterior spaces or what could be called the landscape and
its integration with the building and the general city scene. The subject
deals with the bases and principles that must be considered when
selecting the location and projecting the building within it and treating the
location problems.
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ARC 404 Advanced Building Technology
The subject aims to identify the students with technology as an
intellect and application and the building technology in particular, and its
relationship with architecture as a social requirement with the
concentration on the ways to upgrade technology from primitiveness and
craftsmanship to the modern scientific/industrial technology, within a
complementary and comprehensive view in the architectural act.
ARC 405 Housing Planning
The subject deals with general information about housing as an
important part of city planning. It starts by analyzing the house, then, the
housing demography. Later, it tackles the residential complexes and how
to organize these complexes, compositions, movement and the principle
of the neighborhood unity.
ARC 406 Housing
The subject of housing is considered complementary to the subject of
housing planning in the first academic term. The student is identified with
the principles of housing in general and its different types like single
family housing and multi-family housing and the influential planning and
designing variables in each one of them.
ARC 407 Theories of Architecture
The subject aims to discuss and study the development of architecture
in its two parts, the theoretical and practical, after the industrial
revolution and the French revolution on the bases of the influences like
engineering, planning, scientific and technological development of
construction and raw materials, the development of economics, the huge
changes in the social hierarchy, the great developments of plastic and
applied arts in addition to the great development of the influence of the
theoretical construction as a background for the architectural producer.
ARC 408 Islamic Arab Architecture
This subject aims to cover this kind of architecture and its productions
in the whole Islamic world from China to Spain and during the long
centuries since the mission of Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon
him) and until our modern age. This requires identifying the student with
many aspects of this architecture embodied in distinguished and varied
architectural models starting from the city and passing by the single
buildings reaching to the most little details of Islamic art and ornament.
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ARC 409 Architecture and Climate
The aim of this subject is to identify the student with a wide database
of the whole basic concepts of the reciprocal relationship between the
natural environment and architecture starting from climatic natural factors
and their physical facts at the territorial level in general and at the local
level of Iraqi regions in particular as an example of hot dry regions.
ARC 410 Acoustics of Architecture
Identify the principles of sound behavior in the enclosed space and the
nature of the acoustical phenomenon through the concepts of sound
reflection, absorption, diffusion, and penetration in addition to their
auditory response concepts.
ARC 411 Theories of Urban Design
The subject includes the identification of the basic items of the
concept of urban design, the reasons behind its evolution, its basic
general and special theories and their sources. It also aims to identify the
student with the concepts of urban space, the general space regulative
relations of the urban form, components of urban traditional and modern
fabric, and patterns of urban form and their applying models.
E4 12 Surveying
Finding the ability to deal with the surveying works in the practical
sites, identifying the engineering concepts of within the field of surveying
engineering that are related to the architectural engineering works
through designing, implementing and checking out the work, and the
ability of having the control on the sites and imagining their preliminary
phenomenon without the need to make field visits or inquiries.
FIFTH YEAR
ARC 501 Architectural Designs
This subject is considered the student's final stage in the design
practice. It concentrates on the concept of urban development through the
direct field documentation of traditional areas or central areas in the Iraqi
cites. By doing so, developmental alternatives are set forth as a basic in
the concepts of conservation, development and building material and
through an organizing method which is dependent on the rules and
legislations of Baghdad municipality and the municipalities of the
governorates.
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ARC 502 the Thesis Project
The final project is considered the final stage of the knowledge, which
has been given to the student during his years of study, represented by
intellectual maturity, the basics of the design work and its belonging to
the place and its relation to the values and deep roots of his country,
nation, society, tradition and culture and letting the student to express
these values through his intellectual and design presentations of the
selected project which we emphasize to be one of the real projects
proposed by different state offices and which have clear dependable
curriculum, or proposed by professors in order to solve a particular
problem.
The work of the final project starts by collecting information in addition
to the information of the similar examples, searching for the intellectual
and designing presentation of similar projects in order to be a database for
the student to discuss during the first academic year with the subject
professors and with the participation of all the students.
ARC 503 Specifications and Estimation
The subject aims to identify the student with the executive issues
concerning the work of the architect as a coordinator of the whole
specializations involved in the implementation works in general and as a
producer of the designing works in the presented primary ideas and their
economical balancing and then preparing the detailed designs in
particular.
ARC 504 Profession Practice
The subject aims to identify the student with the basics of profession
practice and the duties of the architectural engineer towards this
profession through his design presentations, first, being as a creative
thinker and, second, being as a coordinator and a leader of the working
team in his field practice.
ARC 505 Theories Architectural Design
The subject aims to acquaint the students with the most outstanding
theories in design and which overlap with many fields such as industry,
applied arts, etc., and to study their development since the beginning of
the twentieth century until the beginning of the twenty first century,
concentrating on the theories and schools of architectural design and the
evolution of the concept of (design), transferring from the ideas of the
fine arts, through a number of movements and schools, to the Bauhaus
school and the concepts of the comprehensive design and the influence
of the philosophy of science and the types of the concepts of logic,
employed in it, in the development of the scientific methodology in
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scientific research, their transference to the trends of architectural design
and their appearance.
ARC 506 Theories of Architectural Criticism
This subject focuses on acquainting the students with the most
outstanding influential theories of criticism in the field of architecture and
explaining the kind of correlation between "the theory of criticism",
"theory of architecture" and "philosophy" and analyzing the relationships
among the three mentioned aspects and explaining their influence.
ARC 507 Contemporary Iraqi Architecture
The subject focuses on studying the Iraqi architecture since the late of
nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century and
concentrating on the most important conceptual and applied changes
during the different decades and diagnosing the most important cultural
influences which accompanied these changes.
ARC 508 Contemporary Arab Architecture
This lesson aims to develop and enlarge the student's database
concerning the contemporary Islamic Arab architecture at the intellect
and application levels (very briefly) and for one academic term where the
student identifies the theories of contemporary Islamic architecture. The
subject also deals with Islamic architecture, the methods of solving the
problem of joining tradition and modernism in order to achieve an
architecture that bears the historical, cultural and intellectual heritage.
ARC 509 Philosophy of Architecture
This subject aims to fulfill several educational objectives, which are
important to the student of the primary studies, in the fifth academic year
as identifying the student with the general principles of thinking which
are dealt with by philosophy in its three main fields: the field of
knowledge, existence and the value on the basis that architecture is one of
the fields of knowledge which is studied through the fields of philosophy.
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Postgraduate Curriculum
1st Semester
M.Sc. Courses; Environment and Technology in Architecture.

Code
Subject
ARC 601
Advanced Arch. Design.

Arabic and Islamic
Architecture
Research Methodology.
Climate and Architecture.
Theory Of Architecture.
Advanced Building
Technology.
English Language.
Arabic Language and
Writing Method.
ARC 602
ARC 603
ARC 604
ARC 605
ARC 606
GE 607
ARC 608
2ndSemester
ARC 609
ARC 610
ARC 611
ARC 612
ARC 613
ARC 614
GE 615
Hours
Total
Environmental Arch.
Design.
Environmental Psychology.
Architecture and
Technology.
Environmental Acoustics.
Elective Course
(1)
Elective Course
(2)
English Language.
Total
Units
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
15
14
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
13
12
ARC 601 Advanced Architectural Design

Develop the creative thinking and ability in coherent decisions making
and organizing facts and contrastive (or distant) scenes within a coherent
frame. Deepen the designing culture through the controversy of the
relationship between man, the surrounding nature and man-made
environment. Searching, analyzing and adopting an intellect and research
methods suitable for the specialty nature.
The students discover their thesis subjects in concern with the
scientific research planning of the department and diagnose their research
problems by reading, analyzing and discussing the literature review on its
different levels, so they can draw their researches goal and choose the
suitable methodology. Also, they have to study and compare a group of
global, Arabic and local architectural examples as a base in his study
Many sketch designs in advanced architectural design can be practiced.
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ARC 602 Arabic and Islamic Architecture
Building a database for the Master degree student about the Islamic Arab
Architectural Theory and its intellectual basics that are influential in
forming the architectural shape through the following items:
1- An introduction about art and the Islamic architecture and their
definitions.
2- Islamic architecture from the orientalists' view.
3- Art and Islamic architecture basics and philosophy.
ARC 603 Research Methodology
The subject aims at explaining the characteristics of scientific
research and its method of achievement and emphasizing the peculiarity
of the architectural research and the methodological ways adopted in its
fulfillment through clarifying the importance of the addition of
knowledge and how it is achieved as well as discussing the concept of
originality; its levels and the methods of carrying it out, and the specialty
of the architectural researches in content and method in comparison with
the literary and scientific researches.
ARC 604 Climate and Architecture
Identifying the student with a main database about the mutual
relationship between the surrounding environment and architecture and
concentrating on the peculiarities of the climatic conditions of the hot and
dry regions. Explaining some indicators of design decisions through the
executive reality and diagnosing the most important probable obstacles at
the level of the principal decisions or through choosing the suitable
details to implement them.
Identify with some of the modern technological developments in
the basics of environmental conservation and the concept of high
flexibility in environmental control.
ARC 605 Theory of Architecture
The subject aims at acquainting the M Sc students with the
concepts of the theory of architecture in general and the fields of its
concern and the type of their overlapping with the other levels of
architecture and its specialties.
ARC 606 Advanced Building Technology
The subject aims to define the essence of technology as an idea,
application, its relationship to nature and man with special emphasis
given to the principles of efficiency development; presenting technology
as a social demand.
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GE 607 English Language

The subject begins with an introductory lecture entitled: 'What's
language?, what are the varieties of language? Standard, regional and
social dialects'. It also deals with the meaning of culture and the
relationship between language and culture.
It deals with the following grammatical aspects: parts of speech;
their classification and use, tenses in English, conditions and results,
passive voice, sentence structure: the phrase, the clause, the sentence:
simple, compound and complex sentences and subject verb agreement.
ARC 608 Arabic Language and Writing Method.
The subject deals with basic speech, and writing speech and
studied, text and paragraph structures are studied side by side basics of
translations fundamentals, with especial focus on common linguistic and
translations mistakes.
ARC 609 Environmental Architectural Design.
Develop the creative thinking and ability in coherent decisions
making and organizing facts and contrastive (or distant) scenes within a
coherent frame.
The students can choose a design problem within his field of
specialization and try to solve it in several stages (data gathering, concept
preparations, plans drawings and details) with a final reports about his
thesis subjects. Also, many sketch designs can be practiced.
ARC 610 Environmental Psychology
The subject includes the clarification of human behaviors in the
built environment and explaining their existent phenomena which help
the designer to comprehend the common trends and attitudes in any
community in a certain time in such a way that enables him to create
solutions which are more human and more congruent with the peculiarity
of that community. Thus, the designed environments become clearer and
more legible. Environmental psychology is the science that cares of the
psychological study of behavior and its relationship with the daily
physical environment.
ARC 611 Architecture and Technology
The subject aims to specialize the knowledge in the field of modern
building technology (in general) Industrialized building (in particular).
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ARC 612 Environmental Acoustics
Identifying the importance of the environmental acoustics in the
architecture and the practical applications during the process of designing
and implementation.
What is meant by environmental acoustics is the influence of the
acoustic phenomenon on space and man, firstly in a positive manner as
an informational content in a form of sound signs and here the process of
sound design plays an important role in containing and supporting these
signs, secondly in a negative manner as vague and annoying signs
(noise).
GE 615 English Language
The subject aims at developing students' vocabulary. It includes
the following items: frequently confused words, certain expressions and
idioms, phrasal verbs and learning some architectural terms and theories.
The subject also deals with letting the students' know how to write
compositions: short stories and architectural passages.
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1st Semester
M.Sc. Courses; Theory of Architecture and Islamic Architecture

Code
Subject
ARC 601

Arabic and Islamic
Architecture
Advanced Building
Technology.
English Language.
Arabic Language and
Writing Method.
ARC 602
ARC 603
ARC 604
ARC 605
ARC 606
GE 607
ARC 608
ARC 616
2ndSemester
ARC 617
ARC 618
ARC 619
ARC 620
ARC 621
GE 615
Hours
Total
Conservation and
Application Design.
Philosophy and Criticism.
History and Criticism of
Architecture.
Theory and Application in
Arabic and Islamic
Architecture.
Elective Course
(1)
Elective Course
(2)
English Language.
Total
Units
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
15
14
2
2
2
1
1
1
13
12
ARC 616 Conservation and Application Design

The subject deals with advanced applications of theories and
concepts of conservation, both architectural and urban conservation,
and theories of urban design and development, students present
several seminars on specialized issues in the field, with special focus
on urban development or conservation of historical and traditional
areas in Iraqi cities and sites.
The subject ends with design or urban design suggestions,
presented by the students, for actual studied areas and sites.
The subject aims at acquainting the M Sc students with the
concepts of the theory of architecture, philosophy issues, the concept of
criticism beside its role and effect on architectural thoughts, theories and
products.
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ARC 618 History and Criticism of Architecture
The subject aims to analyze different approaches on history of
architecture, and how architectural styles and movement grow, so
theories of criticism of art and history, criticism of history of civilizations
are discussed and interpreted by students with written papers and
discussions.
ARC 619 the Intellect of the Islamic Arab Architecture
The subject deals with the architectural heritage in Iraq through
holy cities and the urban innovation. It also deals with the continuity
between the intellect of the old and middle Iraqi architecture as a
contrastive analysis with the Islamic Iraqi architecture. Beside that it
explains the role of laws and legislations in application and in conserving,
the architecture intellect in the contemporary Iraqi city with methods of
applying the Islamic intellect in the urban design of the contemporary
Iraqi city.
1st Semester
M.Sc. Courses; Housing and Urban Design in Architecture

Code
Subject
ARC 601

Arabic and Islamic
Architecture
Advanced Building
Technology.
English Language.
Arabic Language and Style
of Research Writing.
ARC 602
ARC 603
ARC 604
ARC 605
ARC 606
GE 607
2ndSemester
ARC 608
ARC 622
ARC 623
ARC 624
ARC 625
ARC 626
ARC 627
GE 615
Hours
Total
Urban Design Application.
Theories of Urban Design.
Housing Economics.
Housing Parameters.
Elective Course
(1)
Elective Course
(2)
English Language.
Total
106
Units
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
15
14
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
13
12

ARC 622 Urban Design Application
The subject touches on the mutual relationship between man, as a
societal being, and the architectural environment concerning influencing
and being influenced by the meanings and connotations of the urban view
and its influence on man's senses.
The subject covers the role of engineering and the architect in particular
in drawing these features and what influence the laws and legislations
have on pushing forward or hindering the cities' development and growth
in the correct way.
The subject also illustrates an analytic comprehensive theory of the real
condition of the contemporary cities among which the Iraqi cities and
causes of their deterioration and declination as a place for the present
century man to live in.
ARC 623 Theories of Urban Design
Ripen the sense of architects to deal with the city in a
comprehensive view when they make designs for individual buildings.
Therefore, the items of the subject concentrate on the idea that the city's
physical compositions are adobes in the inclusive general composition,
and thus, they have to be harmonious, consistent with each other so that
the city's total general context will be healthy, correct and pleasant.
Since the architect's task is based on creating these relationships,
therefore, the subject aims at studying the items that form the city
singularly and altogether and looking at their mutual relationships
concerning influencing and being influenced.
ARC 624 Housing Economies
This subject deals with the relationships between the
implementation of housing projects and the national economy concerning
financing and reducing the costs and the mechanisms of implementation.
ARC 625 Housing Parameters
This subject deals with the concept of housing, the concept of
economic, aesthetic and functional value of housing. It deals also with
theoretical trends and behavioral studies relative to housing, beside
territoriality and privacy as behavioral concept in addition to the housing
and the concept of 'place'
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1st Semester
Ph.D. Courses; Philosophy in Architecture

Code
Subject
ARC 701
ARC 702
Theories of Arch.
Research Methodology
Thought of Arabic and
Islamic Arch.
Urban Design Theories
Elective (1)
Elective (2)
English Language
ARC 703
ARC 704
ARC 705
ARC 706
GE 707
Hours
2ndSemester
Total
ARC 708
ARC 709
ARC 710
ARC 711
ARC 712
ARC 713
GE 714
Philosophy of Arch.
Philosophy of Science
Seminar of Thesis
Technology and Arch.
Elective (3)
Elective (4)
English Language
Total
Units
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
14
13
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
14
13
ARC 701 Theories of Architecture

The subject specialized with theory of architecture and its
relation with basic thoughts issues (rationalism and empiricism).
Historical bases for philosophies through ages, is studied in relation
with theories of architecture. Also the relation of social psychology
and environmental theories are studied with its relation to theoretical
issues. The concepts of identity and heritage in architecture are studied
with its relation with locality and globalization.
ARC 702 Research Methodology
The subject discusses on the sources of knowledge through the
framework of the knowledge theory and the main ideologies which
clarify the role of mind and senses according to the discussions of
varied classical and contemporary views of both the western and the
Islamic Arab perspectives in order to clarify the difference and to
specify the outlines of work and indicators of a sober architectural
scientific research.
ARC 703 Thought of Arabic and Islamic Architecture
The subject deals with general concepts about the Islamic
architecture, the intellectual and philosophical bases of the evolution of
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the Islamic city, the organic connection between the Islamic architecture
and city planning and the Islamic Arab and architecture and
contemporary architecture.
ARC 704 Urban Design Theories
The subject concern the mutual relationship between man, as a
societal being, and the architectural environment concerning influencing
and being influenced by the meanings and connotations of the urban view
and its influence on man's senses. Within this frame, the subject clearly
reveals the main concepts and indicators of uniformity, contextually,
containment and the visual and dynamic continuity as principal tools in
drawing the city's view and its identity.
ARC 707 English Language
The subject deals with several items such as varieties of language, and
culture; the meaning of culture; grammatical items; parts of speech,
tenses in English, passive voice, conditions and results: if, unless,
whether or not, concession: although, even though, in spite of, but
anyway, subject verb agreement: either or, neither nor, so and neither,
sentence structure and conversation.
The subject deals with the concept of architecture, its philosophical
thoughts and interpretations.
Main Themes of: form, function, time, place, identity are studied
(and other architectural themes) are studied in different philosophies;
ancient, Islamic, western and modern
ARC 709 Philosophy of Science
The subject aims at explaining the role of the philosophy of
contemporary science in the integration of the scientific knowledge and
its relation with architecture through its relation with the progress of the
scientific knowledge and its association with the ideology and approach
and showing this relationship by discussing the attitudes of some
contemporary western philosophers, and the effect of their philosophy on
urban design and architecture, beside pioneer and contemporary Islamic
philosophers and their role on knowledge theory.
ARC 710 Seminar of Thesis
The Ph. D. student submits a detailed main proposal of his
research, with other alternatives on the same subject, specifying its
scientific and practical importance, with a survey of previous literatures
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unit with analytical method to conclude research problems, within
comprehensive research methodology.
ARC 711 Technology and Architecture
The subject aims to enhance the creative capabilities and act of
making (Technology); and presenting technology as a dialogue between
construction and interpretation, and a dialogue between the producer and
the user as a mean of expression the humanity of humans.
ARC 714 English Language
The subject deals with the following items: vocabulary; learning
architectural terms, reading and discussing architectural passages,
abbreviations and acronyms, punctuation and capitalization in English,
writing an essay, discussing students' essays and translation; meaning and
translation, equivalence, transference of meaning, practicing translation.
Note: elective courses differ with accordance to students' interest and
specialization. Many titles can be chosen such as:
1. Aesthetics. 2. Spaces in Housing Projects. 3. Perception Theories. 4.
Social Psychological Science. 5. Planning 6.Sustainable Architectural
7.Solar Architecture 8.Statistic and Architecture 9.Social Science. 10.
History of Architecture.
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Department of Architecture Engineering

Department of Architecture Engineering

The heads of the department

Dr. Mohammed Makia

Staff of the Architectural Engineering Department

Talib Hameed AlTalib

Bahjat Rashad Shahin Architectural Engineering

Hazim Majeed Jirjees

M.Sc., Assist. Prof.

Ph.D., Assist. Prof.

Ph.D., Assist. Prof.

Ph.D., Assist. Prof.

Department of Architecture Engineering

Huda Abdul Sahib Hasan

Rand Hazim Aga

Abdul Jawad Hasan Aziz Architectural Engineering

Mohammed Ala Al-Deen Architectural Engineering

Haider Asa'd Abul Razaq

Durgham Mizhir Majeed Architectural Engineering

Roni Sami Mansour

Department of Architecture Engineering

Ali Basim Abdul

Linguistics- College of ArtsM.Sc., Assist.Lect.

Rana Majeed Yaseen

Usama Abdul Munim

Hisham Alaa' Husain

Anas Hameed Majeed

Ahmed Khider Abdul

Zaynab Khalid Hussein Architectural Engineering

Asmaa Sadiq Abdul

Mayada Hikmat Yousif Architectural Engineering

Lynor Sa'ad Yousif

Huda Sabah Fakher

Sali Fakhri Khalaf

Muhand Hilal Muhsin

Sura Sa'ad Aziz

Department of Architecture Engineering

Aseel Abdul Hameed

Zaynab Salih Al-Beirmani

Goroop Kamil Mohammed

Ayser Mahmmod Mizher

Zahra' Adnan Fadil

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