A lecturer in the Department of Architecture (Lubna Rahim Al-Azzawi) granted a doctorate  degree titled  "The Underlying Forces For Sustainable Urban Development" on Monday, 17 of April , 2023 at  Mohammed Makiya Hall, Department of Architecture at the University of Baghdad. The thesis focused on developing Urbanism theories by proposing a meta-theory of the underlying forces of SUD, which integrates intellectual dualities for the transformative transitional force  for the development of cities all over the world in general, and Iraqi cities in particular. The thesis concludes  identifying  multiple approaches of assessments and measurements to assess and predict potential urban development in the future .

Dr. Mustafa Kamel Kadhim, professor of first stage architectural design subject, with the teaching staff of the department organized  on Saturday,29 of April, 2023  a workshop at the studios of the department. The workshop  focused on documenting individual housing models of architectural practice with their functional analysis at the level of movement, actual measurements and functional  graduation aiming at reaching the conclusion of bubble diagram, zoning on site, Zoning on the plan.

The outputs  applied to the design of a 150m house design project that reflects students' creative skills to develop design models according to the new determinants.