Shamil Abdul Fattah Al-Mulla Hummadi spent his early life in Iraq before travelling abroad for architectural studies, beginning in London at the Northern Polytechnic on Holloway Road (c.1965). He subsequently studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, where his Master’s thesis, The City as a Response to Nature, proposed a master plan for Germantown, Maryland, as a satellite city for Washington, D.C. that emphasised integration with the natural landscape, pedestrian networks, and modular prefabricated housing systems. In 1967–68, Hummadi returned to London to attend the Department of Tropical Architecture at the Architectural Association, where he undertook the Housing Course. Unfortunately, details of Hummadi’s professional work after leaving the AA, whether in Iraq or abroad, are not yet known to us, although given the period and his training, public-sector planning or governmental architectural work in Iraq is probable. 

 Sources:

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1967-68. AA Archives.
• Hummadi, Shamil A. F. The City as a Response to Nature. Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967. MIT DSpace. Accessed July 18, 2025. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/74972/24931451-MIT.pdf?sequence=2