Mustansiriyah University

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (1951), Awni belonged to a generation of Iraqi architects who had studied in the UK and the US during and after World War II, before returning to Iraq to establish their own architectural practices and to receive governmental appointments. … The campus testifies to an evolution of Awni’s architecture: the open glass façades, which had characterized his office build- ings in the early 1960s, were covered in the Mus- tansiriyah buildings by patterned, cantilevered screens—executed by local masons—in brick and terracotta, in reference to the tradition of brick buildings in Baghdad. Excerpt from Łukasz Stanek’s article in: SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey. Catalog DAM + Wüstenrot Foundation, Zurich (Park Books) 2017