Wright was among the many elite Western architects invited to Iraq as part of a campaign to modernize the capital city.
However, Western architects attempting to build within the Islamic milieu opened themselves to criticism.
Construction is to begin later this year, using a combination of Soviet workers and Western European architects, and the theaters are to open in late 1991.
In the 80's and early 90's - Japan's boom period - this stream of Western architects became a river.
Later in the beginning of the 17th century, his son decided to build a masonry structure in the new location receiving guidance from Western European architects.
Western architects were gradually waking up to a momentous possibility.
But don't use it as an excuse to criticize Western architects.
That classical complex has inspired Western architects ever since, from Palladio to Thomas Jefferson.
George Herbert Parry (1882 - 1947) was a Western Australian architect.
Still, the heady days when this corner of the world was a Western architect's oyster may be winding down.