Aga Khan Documentation Center Program Head Sharon C. Smith worked with the Municipality of Baghdad to choose images of works designed by Iraqi architect Mohamed Saleh Makiya (1914-2015) that will be used on postage stamps in Iraq. The images included plans, drawings, and photographs selected from the extensive archive that Makiya donated to AKDC@MIT in 2012.
The 1000 dinar stamp ($0.84) includes a photograph of the architect foregrounded against an image of one of his earliest major works, the Khulafa Mosque in Baghdad. It was issued alongside a 750 dinar stamp honoring the recently deceased architect Zaha Hadid.
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Profile: Mohamed Makiya – 1914-2015
Mohamed Saleh Makiya (1914-2015) was born in Baghdad and educated in England, receiving his BArch at Liverpool School of Architecture and a diploma in civic planning from Liverpool University in 1941 and 1942, respectively.
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