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Salma Samar Damluji

I- Introduction Salma Samar Damluji is an Iraqi British architect, professor and author. She graduated from the AA School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art in London. She worked with Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in Cairo, in1975-6 and in 1984-5. She was appointed Architectural Advisor to HH Shaykh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on The Shaykh Zayed Grand Mosque project and other projects in Abu Dhabi. In 2008 she established with colleagues in Yemen The Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Hadramut (Yemen) and has been working there on earth construction and rehabilitation projects.

Her projects in Yemen include, 'Aynat Mosque: Masjid al Faqih (2008-11), Masna'at 'Urah, Da'wan (2008-12), Husn Qarn Majid, Da'wan (2012-14), 'Umar Ba Wazir Mosque, Wadi Sah (2008-10) and more recently (2017-19), the post-war rehabilitation of the Shibam Gateway, and reconstruction of al-Habib Hamad bin Salih Dome, Bin Ismail Mosque, Shaklanza Mosque in Shihr and Shaikh Yaʿqub Dome in Mukalla. These projects were funded by the Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands and the Cultural Protection Fund of the British Council, United Kingdom.

In 2014, Damluji was the first woman invited to give the Leçon Inaugurale at the École de Chaillot in Paris, the tenth in the series. This was published in The Other Architecture: Geometry, Earth and the Vernacular, (Paris, 2015) and forms an overview of her work and research to date. She was elected Member of the Académie d’Architecture in 2017, awarded the Académie d’Architecture’s Restoration Award in 2015 and The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2012.

Alongside her professional practice, Damluji has held a longstanding commitment to research across the academic and professional field of architecture. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Architecture in the Islamic World at the American University of Beirut. Damluji previously taught at the Architectural Association (AA) and the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London (UK). She has published several works on earth and vernacular architecture in the Arab World. Her publications include Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia (2018), Al Diwan Al Amiri, Doha (2011), The Architecture of Yemen (2007), The Architecture of Oman (1998). An updated edition of her book on The Architecture of Yemen is due in 2020. She has curated a number of exhibitions in London, Paris and Madrid.

II- Publications

a- Books

•	Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia, (Laurence King Publishing, London 2018) ISBN 978-1786272614

Based on working with Fathy in 1976 and 1984, the book covers his philosophy, projects and research on Arab culture, design, earth construction, rural and low-cost housing, Islamic cities and architecture. Critical study and analysis of his work was contributed by co-author Viola Bertini (Milan Politechnic and IUAV). The book includes original texts by Fathy that were edited and translated by Damluji while working with him in Egypt, that were published for the first time. The book contains over 500 images including plans, drawings and photographs after researching and sourcing his archives at the American University of Cairo (AUC) and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (Geneva).

•	The Other Architecture: Geometry, Earth and Vernacular (Leçon Inaugurale de l’École de Chaillot), Paris 2015, French and English. (Short listed by the Académie d’Architecture for the Prix du Livre d’Architecture in November 2015). ISBN 978-2-86742-231-7 / 978-2-916183-33-6

•	Al Diwan Al Amiri, Doha, Qatar, Laurence King Publishing, London 2013. ISBN 978-1856697293

•	Earth Architecture, Architectural Landmarks Wadi Hadramut & Daw‘an, Earth Architecture Conference Say’un- February 2011, Beirut 2011.

•	Editor. The Sheikh Zayed Al Nahayan Mosque Abu Dhabi: Italian Excellence in The UAE, Fantini Mosaici, Milano 2009. ISBN 978-0615276398

•	The Architecture of Yemen From Yafi’ to Hadramut, Laurence King Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1856696145

•	The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Apex Publishing, Muscat 2007.

•	The Architecture of the UAE, Garnet Publishing, Reading 2006. ISBN 978-1859641569

•	The Architecture of Oman, Reading 1998. ISBN 978-1859640838

•	Ed. The Architecture of the Prophet's Holy Mosque Madinah, London 1998. ISBN 978-1874371335

•	Ed. The Architecture of the Holy Mosque Makkah, London 1998. ISBN 978-1874371328

•	Zillij The Art of Moroccan Ceramics, with John Hedgecoe; Reading 1992 (French Edition 1993). ISBN 978-1873938027

•	General Editor, Islamic Art and Architecture, The System of Geometric Design Issam El Said; Tarek El Bouri & Keith Critchlow, Reading 1993. ISBN 978-1873938454

•	The Valley of Mud Brick Architecture Shibam, Tarim and Wadi Hadramut, Reading 1992 (Arabic Edition, Beirut 1996). ISBN 978-1873938010

•	A Yemen Reality; Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone, Reading 1991. ISBN 978-1873938003

•	Ed.The Visual Diary of an Arab Architect, Maath Alousi, Beirut & London 1983. ISBN 978-0861990177

b- Selected Articles

-	Alef Magazine Issue 6 pp.70-73, 2008

-	Earth Wear: Mud Cities in Hadramut, Yemen, The Architectural Review, February 2020.

-	Hassan Fathy, de la vérité en Architecture; Hassan Fathy, About Truth in Architecture, Engagements, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, ‘A’A 424, Septembre 2018

-	Les Architectures de Terre de Salma Samar Damluji; Salma Samar Damluji’s Earth Architecture, Générosités, espaces en plus, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, ‘A’A 426, May 2018

c- Selected Interviews

Stirworld Salma Samar Damluji on power of master builders in reviving architecture in Yemen by Meghna Meghta

d- Selected Reviews

Casabella, May 2020 ‘Hassan Fathy’ by Francesco Dal Co

November-December 2019: New Left Review ‘A Mud-Brick Utopia’ by Owen Hatherley

November 2018: Financial Times ‘Best books of 2018: Architecture and design’ by Edwin Heathcote

November 8, 2018: Corriere della Sera ‘Hassan Fathy: l’utopia continua’ by Testo Massimo di Conto

October 2018 Wallpaper magazine ‘The first book on the philosophy and work of Hassan Fathy’ by Harriet Thorpe

October 2018 Architectural Digest Middle East ‘Book Review: Hassan Fathy’s tale of Earth & Utopia’ by Jumana Abdel-Razzaq

III- Awards

Médaille de la Restauration, French Academy of Architecture, Silver Medal of The French Academy of Architecture 2015 (Paris)

Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2012 (Paris), The Locus Foundation

IV- Daw'an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation

Daw'an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation was established in 2007 by Salma Samar Damluji and her colleagues in Yemen, Dr Abdallah Baghumyan and Architect Ali Ba Saad. The foundation sets up projects and seeks funding to preserve and develop traditional Hadrami and Yemeni architecture.

‘We are not engaged in restoring buildings: we are architects, not conservationists. It is an enormously positive way to work on regenerating buildings with the inhabitants because you engage with the community, and upgrade the quality of their life and environment by effectively endorsing the contemporary value and future of their vernacular architecture while investing in the ecological landscape. This is the architecture of the future, not the past.’

Projects completed to date:

The following projects were implemented and carried out by the Foundation, of which SS Damluji is Chief Architect, and executed as a joint project with the Cultural Emergency Response (CER-Net) of the Prince Claus Fund in the Netherlands as Partner.

Masna‘at ‘Urah Location: Wadi Daw‘an Date: 2006 – 2013

‘Aynat Mosque: Masjid al Faqih Location: ‘Aynat- Wadi Hadramut Date: 2008 – 2011

‘Umar Ba Wazir Mosque Location: Ghayl ‘Umar- Sah, Wadi Hadramut Date: 2008 – 2010

Wali Domes (Saint Shrines) Location: Sah, Wadi Hadramut Date: 2008 – 2010

Husn Qarn Majid Location: Wadi Daw‘an Date: 2012 – 2014

Shibam’s Housing The BaSahi House, D25 The BaSwatayn House D26 Location: Shibam, Wadi Hadramut Date: 2012 – 2014

Post-War Shibam Shibam Gateway Shibam Palace Entrance Location: Shibam, Wadi Hadramut Date: 2017 – 2019

A grant was approved by the British Council, Cultural Protection Fund (CPF), for a project on ‘Post-war Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Yemen’, directed by the CER-Net Prince Claus Fund. The Daw‘an Architecture Foundation was contracted to manage and implement the project in partnership with the Office of the Governor of Hadramut. The project concerns reconstructing cultural sites and landmarks in Hadramut that have been targeted in the war:

Shaikh Ya‘qub Dome Location: Al Mukallah, Hadramut Date: 2019 – 2020

Shaklanza Mosque Location: Al Shihr, Hadramut Date: 2019 – 2020

Al Habib Hamad Bin Salih Domes Location: Al Shihr, Hadramut Date: 2019 – 2020

Bin Isma’il Domes Location: Al Shihr, Hadramut Date: 2019 – 2020

Video Links

"The Architecture of Yemen from Yafi‘ to Hadramut" by Salma Samar Damluji. A coffee with Salma Samar Damluji: Attilio Petruccioli, Bibliotheca Orientalis, Fondazione S.E.C.A., 2019.

‘Hassan Fathy Earth & Utopia’ A coffee with Salma Samar Damluji: Attilio Petruccioli, Bibliotheca Orientalis, Fondazione S.E.C.A., 2019.

April 2016 Venice: IUAV Conference on Urbicide Syria An interview with Prof. Salma Samar Damluji, Positive Magazine, 2016.

W.A.Ve. 2018 Italian Beauty: the video of the award ceremony

Salma Samar Damluji, Dawan Architecture Foundation, Entrevue diffusée dans l'exposition "Réenchanter le monde: architecture, ville, transitions" présentée à la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine du mercredi 21 mai 2014 au lundi 6 octobre 2014.

Leçon Inaugurale de l’école de Chaillot, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, 3 March 2014.