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Rifat Chadirji Archive - Preliminary Survey, 7 June 2016 List is in same approximate order informational photographs were taken, for now. Vellum - is the term used in this list for architectural vellum, semi-translucent, treated paper. Group A BUILDINGS Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width Terrace House Sandling Wood Estate R. Chadirji Architects II 51 x 66 cm plans, elevation(s). Stamp L.C.C. Hammersmith School of Building and Arts & Crafts, Lime Grove W12, Head of Senior Building School, signature F. G. Gordon? [not sure, could be a color print, not yet photographed]

Drawings - all are signed R. Chadirji, dated, are stamped with the same L.C.C. Hammersmith School…(as noted in previous listing) and stamped on back: RIBA Approved testimony of study

set I 1C8 Section B-B 30 July 1951 51 x 70 1C12 North Elevation 30 July 1951 51 x 70 1C2 Basement 30 July 1951 51 x 70 set II 1C10 East Elevation 30 July 1951 51 x 70 1C3 Ground Floor 30 July 1951 51 x 70 1C9 South Elevation 30 July 1951 51 x 70 1C11 West Elevation 30 July 1951 51 x 70 set III 1C4 First Floor 30 July 1951 52 x 70 1C6 Roof Plan 30 July 1951 52 x 70 1C5 Study Bedroom Floor 30 July 1951 52 x 70 set IV 1B2 Civic Center 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B3 Ground Floor Plan w/notes 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B4 First Floor Plan 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B5 Roof Plan 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B6 North Elevation, West Elevation 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B7 South Elevation, East Elevation 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B8 Sections AA & BB 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B9 Sections CC & DD 30 October 1951 69 x 102 1B11 Perspective (this drawing has in red ink “poor drawing”) 30 October 1951 69 x 102

3 drawings - no writing on any of them 57.5 x 78 Elevation and 2 Sections similar Elevation Ground/Site Plan and Floor Plan

2 Drawings, pencil on quality paper, both signed R. Chadirji: [no pics yet?] Loggia in the Italian Embassy, London 53 x 74.5 5 Bedford Row 52 x 72.5 BUILDINGS Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width Ground Floor, Director General of Municipal Affairs, English and 70 x 100 some Arabic, building bounded by Nidhal, Tunis, and Back Streets (and an unlabeled street), ink on vellum, with folds and rips, including a ca. 19 cm. tear on the right side.

7 prints or drawings with Arabic labels, reduced size(?), yellowing vellum 35.5 x 45.5

Ink [?] drawing on vellum - elevation w/man for scale 24 x 76

Villa Halat - drawings on _____________ 6 Large drawings, with folds, dated 10 June 1967 43 x 76 5 Small, with folds, dated 4 January 1967 38 x 58

Waqaf Alwiyal (written in purple ink), drawings with Arabic labels, 50 x 76 on browning vellum, originals? [3 total, or 2] 2 Elevations on1drawing

Drawings of a building with an almost trapezoidal shape,

8 Floor plans on vellum, labeled in Arabic 52 x 75

4 drawings on thick, off-white vellum 51 x 76 ?

2 Floor plans on vellum, Arabic labels, 1 more folded than the other, 62 x 72 the building shape is a squat and wider, Roman numeral II

Print on dark brown vellum, w/almost sticky surface 59.5 x 82

New Theatre, Abu Dhabi, yellow/browning vellum, brown/black ink, or print, project # DHB/524/339 3 drawings: 62 x 87 Level 1 (drawing) 001 Level 2 (drawing) 002 Level 3 (drawing) 003

4 Drawings - [look like could be Abu Dhabi New [State?] Theatre] 84 x 115 Alt. Level 1 and Alt. Level 2 and 2 other drawings with loose parts stuck on, and causing some sticking together of the drawings. One is very brown

3 drawings New Theatre Abu Dhabi for the Public Works Department, November 1978, by IRAQ Consult, DHB/524/339 68 x 102 1. ?is there a 1., found number but not a name or ID 2. Level 1, 2, 3 3. Site Plan - dark vellum, and 2 other colors, some sticking between fold.

3 Drawings - New Theatre Abu Dhabi, Iraq Consult, 524/339 size not recorded stuck together a bit, Level 1 1.2 Level 2 1.3

Level 3 1.4

5 Drawings on vellum [only photographed the Site Plan], all labeled 83 x 118 Iraq Consult July 1978, National Theatre of Abu Dhabi, for the Ministry of Information and Culture 2 yellow, same plan with theatre seating 2 browning badly [Alt. Level 1 and 2] 1 white

The following 5 drawings were in between and with the 5 drawings on vellum listed immediately above:

-Axonometric and cutaway/partial section, very brown vellum, 84 x 117 difficult to determine correct orientation - above are flipped versions of same drawing. -Pencil on tracing paper, template drawing of site plan [?], has tears, almost ripped in 2 pieces, dead spider, removed.]

-Square vellum w/ Admin included [fits on brown drawing] 37.5 x 37.5

-Ceiling and floor / octagonal shapes - axonometric 61 x 101

-Octagonal plan w/4 squares off it has big corner missing of support 84 x 101

BUILDINGS Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width Elevation, Section and axonometric guide 74 x 104 2 smallish diazo prints - took pics. 53 x 77 Date? in Arabic 1969 / 4 / 7 [w/more details in Arabic on hand-written list] Detail of Fire Place 1970 with Plan, Elevation, Side & Front Sections

Have not found description/dimensions for the following drawing, photographed after the fireplace drawings.

“Front Elevation” on vellum [have drawing on hand-written list] 33 x 46.5

6 Large Diazotypes all but 6th are 84 x 177 51.33 + 51.34 Elevations 01.25 + 01.27 Elevations [Something in Arabic?] index + Floorplan 1.3 index + Floorplan 1.2 index + Floorplan 1.10 + 1.11 Elevations printed backwards 84 x 184

Elevation of one of the Rafidain Banks, Baghdad

3 Diazotypes - 2 building elevations and 1 plan 76 x 100

Elevations North and South 84 x 119 Elevations East and West 1.8 Plan pencil drawing outlines of octagons on otherwise blank sheet

Group A (continued, but are maps segregated from buildings now, were photographed interspersed w/buildings in Group A.) MAPS Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width Map of Baghdad districts - a diazotype 43 x 51 cm

4 Extra-Large Maps with block plans, dark brown [took pics] 103 x 180

5 Extra-Large Maps of Baghdad, white/yellowing vellum 103 x 180

Intersection, 2 vellum, very brittle drawings with ripped edges 100 x 160

2 Enormous Block Plans, diazotypes 102 x 360

Diazotypes: Map, with contour cut on one edge [following the river?], Arabic labels 100 x 215

Baghdad w/Tigris, Arabic labels 102 x 170

Baghdad: 2 sides of the city with block plans, marked with red boundaries each sheet is 99 x 190

Buildings and parking lots enclosed by roads, purple printed diazotype, 84 x 186 large compound w/#s and scale in different directions.

2 large, diazotype elevations - photographed together, below 25 x 175 #’s on top drawing: 20.37 51.37 70.37 1.37 #’s on bottom drawing: 01.39 53.38 51.38 20.38 52 x 175

01.39 90.39 51.39 40.39

2 Large partial plot maps, 1 is labeled: Baghdad Right Bank, annotated in Arabic 102 x 160 Other has writing in orange on the back (photo’d) 88 x 160

Group B BUILDINGS Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width

House plans - photocopies? - all have the same label affixed to them and photographed: Elevation 29.5 x 85 Elevation 29.5 x 95 Section 29.5 x 85 Section 29.5 x 94.5

Villa Hakim, Rabieh, Lebanon 1st roll of drawings photographed with cover sheet 60 x 81 2nd roll , 4 other drawings/sheets, photos of full plans and some 60 x 92

indexes, but not all drawings photo’d.

6[?] Yellowed elevations, took photos, labels in Arabic, too small to see 35 x 44.7 probably go w/ plans of similar size seen earlier now in sm. file

White photo paper, larger elevation view, much more visible, not positive 30 x 24 it goes with the others, [previous listing?]. NOT confirmed if same, and probably not!.

Republic of Iraq, AMANAT AL ASSIMA Bab al Sheikh Development 60 x 85 13 drawings, white vellum, took selective pictures (1 drawing) July 87 date in description, but end of drawing has printed date on sheet and info. on stock[?]: Rucaps Layout Sheet L 51102 30-July-85 840 x 594mms

Many more groups of drawings and charts, all from batch on the 60 x 85 small round table together (now stacked to flatten on the light table). Quantity over 100[?]

Group C OTHER Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width Kamil Chadirji (father of Rifat Kamil Chadirji) size to be recorded

5 special edition boxes with portfolios of 8 lithographs of his photographs, and a cover page, and a Rifat Chadirji note about the photographs, dated 1985, Cambridge, Mass. [Photos not taken of these, yet.] 2 extra portfolios, one with 3 sets of cover sheets, one with multiple copies of all but one of the photographs

Rifat Chadirji size to be recorded - 17 special, numbered edition boxes of prints of drawings of 12 of his buildings, signed by Chadirji and

embossed, also a cover page, contents, and 2 other introductory pages.

Box of misc. photos, possibly of things from Kamil Chadirji, or that were his. sizes to be recorded - 4 large format photographs (the last 3 are glossy photos of 3 of Kamil’s photos in the special ed. box):

1. seal impressions2. Cobbler print3. Round boats,4. Person in front of a hut

7 photographs on mat board sizes to be recorded - 1. K. Chadirji Baghdad belongings box (eye-glasses etc.)2. K. Chadirji camera equipment[?] Including a Hasellblad3. a 4 x 5” camera [wood, box-shaped?]4. Wide view of camera equipment5. A darkroom?6. Screening room?7. A projector, of slides?

[No photos taken of this material.]

Kamil Chadirji boxes here > on shelves (black, top 4). Rifat Chadirji boxes here > (black, all the other boxes)

to here > <2 R. Chadirji boxes and the K. Chadirji portfolios with extra copies of cover pages & prints on table

Group D ROLLED DRAWINGS Dimensions are all ca. and in Description (any names/places/material, if known) centimeters, height x width Plans and 1 Section A-A. 3 pages with Arabic annotations, 78 x 100 very folded & ripped roll - No Roll #.

National Bank of Abu Dhabi - 6 pages - Roll #1 41 x ca. 59

National Bank of Abu Dhabi - 5 pages - Roll #4[?] 41 x ca. 59 Northwest Elevation Southwest Elevation

Ministry of Endowments at Bab al-Mu'azzam, Baghdad

Southeast Elevation 2 Perspective drawings

Building with an L shape with distinct partitions in the right side of the 60 x 88 bottom/horizontal part . Roll #32A. There is a big tear is across the outermost ink drawing.

Jan 4, 1967 Villa Halat - 19 vellum drawings - added to earlier batch Roll #10 38 x 57

25 drawings of partial maps and street maps of varying shapes, in Arabic, were rolled together:

3 general maps of Baghdad broken up by sectors, each with a 46 x 48 different configuration

1 abstract shape with divided sectors. 46 x 50

2 long road maps 30 x 11

5 medium length road maps 30 x 40-50

13 closer to square size, small road maps 30 x 37

1 larger, squarish street map 49 x 57