Hisham Munir

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Hisham A. Munir (Arabic: هشام منير) is an Iraqi architect known for pioneering architectural modernism in Iraq.

[1] Hisham A. Munir was born in February, 1930 in Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq.

[2] In 1959 Munir established Iraq's first architecture program at the University of Baghdad with Mohamed Makiya and Abdullah Ihsan Kamel.

[3] Munir designed a number of major projects in the following three decades including the University of Mosul campus (1966), Iraqi Ministry of Interior (1974), Baghdad City Hall (1975), and Ishtar Sheraton Hotel & Casino in Baghdad (1982).

[4][5] In 2017, Hisham received the Tamayouz Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement.