IBC Diamond Sponsorship “Tamayouz Award” for Architectural Excellence For Graduation Projects of Architecture Colleges Students in Iraqi Universities for 2015
Based on IBC’s vision and aspiration to support scientific competencies and talents, and its belief in the need to encourage and motivate such competencies for further creativity, IBC, and for the fourth year respectively, took part in the Diamond Sponsorship of “Tamayouz Award” for Architectural Excellence for graduation projects of students in Architecture Departments in the Iraqi Universities for 2015.
It is worth mentioning that “Tamayouz Award” was founded with unadulterated Iraqi efforts with the aim of supporting young Iraqi architects and introducing the exerted academic efforts to the world.
IBC granted a scholarship to student Waad Issam Al-Derzi, a first winner of Tamayouz Award of the Architecture Universities Category, to obtain a Masters Degree in Architecture from London South Bank University in the United Kingdom.
Moreover, IBC sponsored Tamayouz Award for Women for Excellence in Architecture and Construction for 2015.
Tamayouz Award aims at honoring excellence and creativity and sheds the light on the young Iraqi architects, in addition to introducing the creativity of Iraqi students to the global society of architecture.
“Tamayouz Award” was founded in 2012 as the first award in Iraq for excellence in architecture design.
The first annual award was based on one category only which was the excellence award for academic designs of architecture graduation projects in the Iraqi Universities.
“Tamayouz” Initiative aims at supporting the efforts of academics in Iraqi Universities, acknowledging talents and rewarding excellence in professions relating to arts and architecture.
The Global Pact in Iraq succeeded in presenting this initiative to the Iraqi companies specialized in building and architecture.
Three member Organizations in the Global Pact network sponsored this initiative amongst which was IBC in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Presently, “Tamayouz Award” has become the only initiative that connects the international organizations, local companies and the students to encourage and promote the awareness of design excellence and boost the wheel of architecture in a country that currently suffers from urban and architectural distortion.
At the beginning of 2015 the Iraqi architecture icon Dr. Rifat Chaderchi was granted the Honorary Doctorate Degree by the British Coventry University upon the nomination of Tamayouz Award for Iraqi Architecture and the Department of Architecture in the University on the significance of his architectural and intellectual achievements that enriched the Iraqi and Arab architecture.
The Doctorate Degree granting ceremony was attended by Dr. Chaderchi’s wife, Mrs. Belqis Sharara, his brother, Mr. Yaqdhan Chaderchi, Omran Yaqdhan Chaderchi, Coventry University architecture professor and founder of Tamayouz Award architect Prof. Ahmed Salah Al-Mallak, the Iraqi students studying in the University and a large crowd of Dr. Chaderchi’s friends and fans.
The Honorary Doctorate Degree in Arts was handed to the Iraqi architect, academic and theoretician Dr. Rifat Chaderchi by the Head of Coventry University during the students’ graduation ceremony held in the Cathedral of Coventry City.