An Inquiry About the Roles and Duties of Architects in the Public Sector: Sulaimani Governorate as the Study Field

Abstract

Architects throughout the time being experienced many roles in different times, while there have always been unclear what architects underwent and practised was their actual duty. This research tries to find proper answers about architects' duties, roles, and struggles in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. For this reason, questionnaires were applied to ask both the architects and administrative managers in Sulaimani governorate/department of building construction. We find out that the main role of an architect in the Sulaimani governorate is mainly designing projects. However, they are involved in managerial roles as project supervisors destined by the governorate and also another role of the architect is checking the drawings of the projects designed outside of this administration office. Another finding was that the architects in the Sulaimani governorate or Iraqi Kurdistan region generally face the problem that their works are done by other specialists, which sometimes cause some domain faults in the works and do not have enough or proper area to work in.