About this Event
Please join the College of Design for the spring 2025 architecture lecture series.
A British architect of Iraqi and Lebanese descent, Salma Samar Damluji graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture and The Royal College of Art London. She worked with Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy (1975-1976) and (1983 to1984). In 2008, she established with colleagues in Yemen the Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Mukalla, Hadramut and has been working there on earth construction and rehabilitation projects. See www.dawanarchitecturefoundation.org. Damluji has carried out extensive field work and research on architecture in the Arab region. She is author of over twelve titles including Zillij (1992), The Art of Moroccan Ceramics (1993) with John Hedgecoe, The Architecture of Oman (1998), The Architecture of the UAE (2006), and The Architecture of Yemen (2007). Her latest, The Other Architecture: Geometry, Earth and Vernacular (Leçon Inaugurale de l’École de Chaillot), was published in Paris in 2015 and short listed at the Académie d’Architecture for the Prix du Livre d’Architecture, in November 2015. She was elected Member of the Académie d’Architecture, Paris (2017). Her forthcoming publication is entitled Earth & Utopia, Laurence King Publishing, London (Fall 2018). Since 2013, she is Professor, Binladin Chair for Architecture in the Islamic World at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, the American University of Beirut.