Ala Younis: Plan for Greater Baghdad
The project looks at monuments, (by) architects, (for) governments, and ideals' tensional relationship to ideologies in times of shifting states. Exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.
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1961. Of the three monuments commissioned to Chadirji only two were built: the Monument to the Unknown Soldier (1959) and the base of the July Revolution / Liberty Monument, for which Jawad Salim realized bronze sculptures to illustrate the pre- and post-revolution eras.
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Plan for Greater Baghdad, 2015
The project looks at monuments, (by) architects, (for) governments, and ideals' tensional relationship to ideologies in times of shifting states. Exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.