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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. Dr. Mohammed Makia 1959-1968

2. Assist. Prof. Husham Muneer 1968-1972

3. Assist. Prof. Hazim Majeed Al-Tak 1972-1972

4. Dr. Abdul Salam Farman 1972-1973

5. Assist. Prof. Nasir Al-Asadi 1973-1974

6. Dr. Rofael Wahba 1975-1980

7. Dr. Amanueal Hana Mikho 1980-1986

8. Prof. Talib Hameed Al-Talib 1986-1987

9. Dr. Munther Al-Adammy 1987-1989

10. Dr. Ihssan Fathi 1989-1991

11. Assist. Prof. Hussam Salman Al-Rawi 1991-2001

12. Dr. Bahjat Rashad Shahin 2001 - present time

Staff of the Architectural Engineering Department

Scientific Degree

General Specialty Name No.

Ph.D., Prof. Architectural Engineering

Talib Hameed Al-Talib

1.

Ph.D., Prof. Architectural Engineering Mudafer Ali Hasson Mohammed Al-Jabri

2.

Ph.D., Prof. Architectural Engineering Saba Jabar Neama Abdulah Al-Khafaji

3.

Ph.D., Prof. Architectural Engineering Ghada Mousa Rizoqi 4.

Ph.D., Prof. (Head of the Department)

Architectural Engineering Bahjat Rashad Shahin 5.

M.Sc., Assist. Prof. Architectural Engineering Hazim Majeed Jirjees Salih Al-Tek

6.

Ph.D., Assist. Prof. Fine Arts-Sculpture Sabah Fakher Al-Deen Abdul Qadir Noori

7.

Ph.D., Assist. Prof. Architectural Engineering Areej Kareem Majeed Al-Sad Khan

8.

Ph.D., Assist. Prof. Architectural Engineering Nadia Abdul Majeed Al-Salam

9.


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Scientific Degree


Ph.D., Assist. Prof. Architectural Engineering Huda Abdul Sahib Hasan Al- Alwan

10.

M.Sc., Lect. Architectural Engineering Abbas Abdul Razaq Mohammed Kuba

11.

M.Sc., Lect. Architectural Engineering Yasir Hikmat Abdul Majeed Mahmoud

12.

M.Sc., Lect. Architectural Engineering Rand Hazim Aga 13.

Ph.D., .Lect. Architectural Engineering Abdul Jawad Hasan Aziz 14.

Ph.D., .Lect. Architectural Engineering Amjad Mahmmod Abdullah Muhsin Al-Badri

15.

Ph.D., .Lect. Architectural Engineering Kadhim faris Dhumad Al-essawi

16.

M.Sc., Lect. Architectural Engineering Mohammed Rida Majeed Mohammed Al-Jalabi

17.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Amar Salim Dawood Al-Dulaimi

18.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Nisreen Abdu Razaq Ibrahim Al-Juburi

19.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Mohammed Ala Al-Deen 20.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Interior Design Haider Asa'd Abul Razaq Jafer Al-Sa'di

21.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Rafi Mosees Mnaskan Mosees

22.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Maysa' Ziara Mohammed

23.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Tara Abdu Razaq Ali Mardan Al-Barazanji

24.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Amar Salih Ashoor Al-Timimi

25.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Durgham Mizhir Majeed 26.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Roni Sami Mansour Abona

27.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Gada Mohammed Ismael Abdul Razaq kamona

28.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Anfal Mu'ayad Ma'yoof Al-Hijiat

29.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Sharq Jafer Hadi Al-Yasiri

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Scientific Degree


M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Interior Design Ali Basim Abdul Karim

31.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Linguistics- College of Arts- English Language

Layth Muthana Khaleel Fahmi

32.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Wijdan Haseeb Khamees

33.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Rana Majeed Yaseen 34.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Usama Abdul Munim Khirbeet

35.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Hisham Alaa' Husain 36.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Anas Hameed Majeed 37.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Civil Engineering Ahmed Khider Abdul Rida

38.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Zaynab Khalid Hussein 39.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Sajida Khadim 40.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Asmaa Sadiq Abdul Kareem

41.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Mayada Hikmat Yousif 42.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Lynor Sa'ad Yousif 43.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Huda Sabah Fakher Al-Deen

44.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Sali Fakhri Khalaf 45.

M.Sc., Assist.Lect. Architectural Engineering Muhand Hilal Muhsin 46.

Engineering Staff

No. Name 1. Sura Sa'ad Aziz

2. Maryam Yousif Na'om

3. Aseel Abdul Haleem Ahmed

4. Inas Hasan Shaker

5. 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.

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

FIRST YEAR 1st Semester Hours/Week

2nd Semester Hours/Week

Code Subject Units Theo. Tuto. Lab. Theo. Tuto. Lab.

Arc 101 Architectural Design 12 2 - 8 2 - 8 Arc 102 Architectural Graphics 4 1 - 2 1 - 2

Arc 103 Freehand Drawing 3 - - 4 - - 4

Arc 104 Principles of Art and Architecture

4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 105 Building Construction I 4 2 - - 2 - -

G.S 106 Mathematics 4 2 - - 2 - -

G.S 107 Computer programming I

4 1 - 2 1 - 2

G.S 108 Arabic Language 2 2 - - 2 - -

G.E 109 English Language I 2 2 - - 2 - -

G.S 110 Human Rights 2 2 - - 2 - -

Total 41 16 - 16 16 - 16

Total hours per week 32 32


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governorates in Iraq, and it should be submitted with report at the beginning of the next year.

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.

SECOND YEAR 1st Semester Hours/Week



Arc 201 Architectural Design 12 2 - 8 2 - 8

Arc 202 Architectural Graphics 4 1 - 2 1 - 2

Arc 203 Freehand Drawing 3 - - 4 - - 4

Arc 204 Building Construction II 6 2 - 3 2 - 3

Arc 205 Structure I 4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 206 History of Architecture I 4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 207 Logic and Design Methodology

2 2 - - - - -

G.S 208 Computers II 4 1 - 2 1 - 2

G.E 209 English Language II 2 2 - - 2 - -

G.S 210 Freedom and Democracy

2 2 - - 2 - -

Total 43 16 - 19 14 - 19



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Note: Summer Training The students should practice a designing work in a certain designing institutes for six weeks.

THIRD YEAR 1st Semester Hours/Week




Arc 302 Building Construction III

6 2 -

3 2 -

3

Arc 303 Structure II 4 2 - 1 2 - 1

Arc 304 Principles of Planning 4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 305 History of Architecture II

4 2 -

- 2 -

-

C.E. 306 Sanitary Services 2 2 - - 2 - -

G.S 307 Air-Conditioning Services

2 - -

- - -

-

G.S 308 Lighting Services 2 - - - - - -

G.S 309 Computer Programming III

4 1 -

2 1 -

2

Arc 310 Methods of Conservation

2 2 -

- 2 -

-

Total 39 15 - 16 15 - 16



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FOURTH YEAR 1st Semester Hours/Week




Arc 402 Interior Design 2 1 - 3 - - -

Arc 403 Landscape Design 2 - - - 1 - 3

Arc 404 Advanced Building Technologies 4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 405 Housing Planning 2 2 - - - - -

Arc 406 Housing 2 - - - 2 - - Arc 407 Theories f Architecture 4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 408 Islamic Arab Architecture

4 2 - - 2 - -

Arc 409 Architecture and Climate

2 2 - - - - -

Arc 410 Acoustics of Architecture

2 - - - 2 - -

Arc 411 Theories of Urban Design

2 - - - 2 - -

C.E 412 Surveying 2 1 - 2 - - -

Total 42 14 - 15 15 - 13


FIFTH YEAR 1st Semester Hours/Week



Arc 501 Architectural Design 7 3 - - - - -

Arc 502 Thesis Project 15 2 - 65 3 - 15

Arc 503 Specification and Estimation 2 2 - - - - -

Arc 504 Profession Practice 2 - - - 2 - -

Arc 505 Theories of Architectural Design

2 2 - - - - -

Arc 506 Theories of Architectural Criticism

2 - - - 2 - -

Arc 507 Contemporary Iraqi Architecture

2 2 - - - - -

Arc 508 Contemporary Arab Architecture 2 - - - 2 - -

Arc 509 Philosophy of Architecture

2 - - - 2 - -

Total 36 11 - 15 11 - 15



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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 ARC 201 Architectural Design

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 ARC 301 Architectural Design

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

M.Sc. Courses; Environment and Technology in Architecture.

Units Hours Subject Code

3 1 Advanced Arch. Design. ARC 601

2 2 Arabic and Islamic Architecture

ARC 602

2 2 Research Methodology. ARC 603

2 2 Climate and Architecture. ARC 604

2 2 Theory Of Architecture. ARC 605

2

2

Advanced Building Technology.

ARC 606

1 2 English Language. GE 607

- 2 Arabic Language and Writing Method.

ARC 608

14 15

Total

3 1 Environmental Arch. Design.

ARC 609

2 2 Environmental Psychology. ARC 610

2 2 Architecture and Technology.

ARC 611

2 2 Environmental Acoustics. ARC 612

1 2 Elective Course (1) ARC 613



12 13 Total

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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M.Sc. Courses; Theory of Architecture and Islamic Architecture




ARC 602



2 2 Theory Of Architecture. ARC 605 2

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ARC 606


- 2 Arabic Language and Writing Method.

ARC 608

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3 1 Conservation and Application Design.

ARC 616

2 2 Philosophy and Criticism. ARC 617

2 2 History and Criticism of Architecture.

ARC 618

2 2 Theory and Application in Arabic and Islamic Architecture.

ARC 619




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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. ARC 617 Philosophy of Architecture 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.

M.Sc. Courses; Housing and Urban Design in Architecture




ARC 602



2 2 Theory Of Architecture. ARC 605

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ARC 606


- 2 Arabic Language and Style of Research Writing.

ARC 608

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3 1 Urban Design Application. ARC 622

2 2 Theories of Urban Design. ARC 623

2 2 Housing Economics. ARC 624

2 2 Housing Parameters. ARC 625




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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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Ph.D. Courses; Philosophy in Architecture


2 2 Theories of Arch. ARC 701

2 2 Research Methodology ARC 702

2 2 Thought of Arabic and Islamic Arch.

ARC 703

2 2 Urban Design Theories ARC 704

2 2 Elective (1) ARC 705


1 2 English Language GE 707

13 14

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2 2 Philosophy of Arch. ARC 708 2 2 Philosophy of Science ARC 709

2 2 Seminar of Thesis ARC 710

2 2 Technology and Arch. ARC 711



1 2 English Language GE 714

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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. ARC 708 Philosophy of Architecture 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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