Architecture Department at TIU Wins Several Awards
Tamayuz Excellence is a multi-competition international initiative. The seven different international competitions award was established in 2012 in the UK and it has annual rounds of various competitions, including the Iraqi Graduation Projects.
The Iraqi graduation projects competition by Tamayuz, gives opportunity to all schools of architecture in Iraq, and Iraqi students all over the world, to present their graduation projects and run for various awards. The first winner receives a scholarship for studying Master’s Degree in Coventry University in the UK, while the second and third winners will be awarded with a three-month internship at Dewan Architects (one of the leading architecture firms in the Middle East) in Dubai, UAE, with salary and accommodation.
The competition was judged by the Zaha Hadid during the first round, and later on included some of the most prominent names in the architectural theory and practice, Iraqi and international.
In the 2020 cycle, the architecture department at TIU won several awards in this category.
Noor Faisal Karimkhan, from TIU’s Architecture Department, won the second place with her graduation project (Vault house Dormitory), which according to the jury was nicely planned, livable, with carefully selected materials and proportions.
The third place in the competition was also secured by a TIU student, “Dastan Othman Hasan”. Named (City as a museum), the project revived a traditional urban neighborhood in Erbil called “Taajeel”, where she attempted to replace an old path with a green corridor, and revive the memory of the place by rebuilding certain important buildings and connect them with a continuous path.
In the same cycle, the architecture department at TIU received the award of “The Architectural School of the Year” for having the largest number of projects in the first places.
Another award is the “Hisham Munir” award for the Iraqi academic of the year. This award was previously known as the supervisor of the year, and it was given to “No’man Bayaty”, a lecturer at the architectural department at TIU, for supervising both of the projects in the second and third places.
The architecture department at TIU continues to grow and and work for greater achievements. Despite being very new, the department is able to compete with old academic institutions and prove its place amongst them as a serious competitor.
