Earth Architecture and Reconstruction – Salma Samar Damluji

About: Salma Samar Damluji, Salma Samar Damluji is an architect who graduated from the Architectural Association (A.A) and the RCA in London. She worked with Fathy in 1975-6 and the 1980s. In 2008 she established with colleagues in Yemen The Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Mukalla, Hadramut and had been working there on earth construction and rehabilitation projects. Her publications include Hassan Fathy Earth & Utopia (2018) The Architecture of Yemen (2007) and Al Diwan Al Amiri, Doha (2011), and has curated a number of exhibitions in London, Paris and Madrid. She was elected Member of the Académie d’Architecture (2017), received the Académie d’Architecture’s Restoration Award in 2015 and The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2012. She is Professor of the Binladin Chair for Architecture in the Islamic World, at the American University in Beirut since 2013.