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2025 The impact of the economic and political transformation on architecture in Iraq from 1822-1958 AIP Conference Proceedings
This paper focuses on studying the transformations of internal Iraqi contextual forces, whether political or economic and their impact on Iraqi architecture during the period (1822-1958), during which local Iraqi architecture underwent radical and decisive changes. In addition, this period is punctuated by rapid technological developments, globalization, and Internal changes in society, including economic, political, and cultural changes, wars, environmental crises, and climate change, which are some of the other major issues that deeply affect the way the world is perceived. These issues have significant social, cultural, economic, environmental, and climatic implications. All of them are related in one way or another to architecture, especially in determining the identity of local architecture. Notably, Iraqi architecture kept pace with such rapid changes and developments and impacted its local identity during this period. Therefore, this research reviews the Impact of Economic and Political Transformation and the extent of their implications on the local architecture in Iraq. Among the main conclusions reached by the research is that Iraq in the period (1822 -1958) went through transitional stages at all political and economic levels that played a decisive role in undergoing dynamic changes that included architecture and urbanism and that during this period, the first generation of academic Iraqi architects who studied architecture outside the country returned who made the architectural profession a free profession and helped to consolidate the Iraqi architectural practice through the opportunities offered to them as a result of the political and economic changes that coincided with their return.