Every Building in Baghdad explores the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji through his own photographs and building documents. Curated by Mark Wasiuta, the show was originally produced for the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Chadirji was an important cultural figure in Iraq though its modernization period of the 1950s and 70s. A prolific architect with over 100 buildings, his work ranged from factories and communications structures to monopoly headquarters and colleges. Every Building in Baghdad fills the Graham Foundation with custom display armatures holding over 70 photographic paste-ups of Chadirji’s photographs of his work and the streets of Baghdad from the 1960s through the 80s. The show will also include drawings, etchings, and more photographs by Iraqi photographer Latif Al Ani.

Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation runs at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (4 W Burton Place, Chicago) to December 31, 2016.