SHORT CV SALMA SAMAR DAMLUJI, AA Dipl. PhD(RCA)

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1 SHORT CV 2013 SALMA SAMAR DAMLUJI, AA Dipl. PhD(RCA) CURRENT Professor, Mu allim Mohammad bin Awad Binladen Chair for Architecture in the Islamic World, Department of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture The American University of Beirut Chief Architect & Founder (since 2008) DAW AN MUD BRICK ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION Hadramut, Yemen AWARDS The Global Award For Sustainable Architecture 2012, Paris The Locus Foundation ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP Clinton Global Initiative (GCI), New York, 2012 & 2013 FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2014 Desert Architecture ; Advisor to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark 2014 Re-Enchanting the World : Global Award Laureates Exhibition, Paris RÉSUMÉ Graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (1977) and The Royal College of Art, London (1987) Worked with Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy in Cairo: , and 1983 to Lecturer at Beirut University College and the Lebanese University in Islamic Arts & Architecture Human Settlement Officer, UN Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London ( ) Tutor at VITA (Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts) at the RCA from (1989 to1994) where she worked with Keith Critchlow and post-graduate students specialising in Islamic geometry, traditional and vernacular architecture and cities Senior Tutor at The Architectural Association School of Architecture, Housing & Urbanism, Graduate School (1989 to1997) Co-ordinator of the RCA Morocco Asilah Studios, ( ) 2002 to 2004 Director: The Technical Office of the Chairman of The Works Department in Abu Dhabi. She invited international architects and artists (including Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Herzog de Meuron, Paul Andreu, Dale Chihuly, Marc Quinn and James Turrell), to work on key architectural projects she was supervising there to present: Architectural rehabilitation sites in Hadramut, Yemen.

2 Chief Architect and founding member of The Daw an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation established in 2008 and based in Mukalla, Yemen. The Daw an Foundation is dedicated to developing and working with vernacular and sustainable architecture. A good number of projects were implemented, in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund, Cultural Emergency Response; Masna t Daw an (2007), Sah & Aynat ( ), and currently (2013-) in Shibam and Qarn Majid, in Hadramut. Research project 2011-ongoing: The Architecture of the Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, India PUBLICATIONS Author of several articles and academic publications, book titles include: A Yemen Reality, Reading (1991) The Valley of Mud Brick Architecture, Reading (1992) General Editor, Islamic Art and Architecture, The System of Geometric Design Issam El Said; Tarek El Bouri & Keith Critchlow, Reading 1993 Zillij The Art of Moroccan Ceramics, with John Hedgecoe, Reading (1993) The Architecture of Oman, Reading (1998) Ed. The Architecture of the Prophet s Mosque in Madina, London (1998) Ed. The Architecture of the Holy Mosque of Makkah, London (1998) The Architecture of The United Arab Emirates, Reading (2006) The Sultan Qaboos Mosque, Muscat (2007) The Architecture of Yemen from Yafi to Hadramut, London (2007) Ed. Italian Excellence The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Mosque, Abu Dhabi (2008) Earth Architecture: Landmarks of Wadi Hadramut & Daw an, Say un Conference, Beirut (2011) Al Diwan Al Amiri Doha, Qatar, London (2013) ARTICLES [2002-present only] Imarat al Qulub, Al Hayat Newspaper, 3 feature articles, April London 2000 Letter from Yafa, British-Yemeni Society Journal, Vol.8, July Building Design in Wadi Hajr, Hadramawt, Studies on Arabia in Honour of G Rex Smith, Ed. Healey, JF and Porter, V. Oxford Art meets Architecture, A House in Khaylah Daw an, Canvas (Art Journal), Dubai, July/August 2005 Remembering Al Andalus, Canvas (Art Journal), Dubai Jan/Feb 2006 Aden, Once Again, (Arabic) Al Ayyam, Aden, Yemen- January 28 & 29 th, 2006 The Holy City: Architecture and Urban Life in the Shadow of God, CCCB, Barcelona, 2006 The Architecture of Cultural Heritage in My Father s House, British Council Exhibition Catalogue, London 2008 Cultural Emergency Relief for Stricken Heritage in Daw an Yemen, 2008 photographic essay, in Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster, pp , Rotterdam BYS Bulletin, The Restoration of Masjid Al Faqih in Aynat, Wadi Hadramut, Volume London A Mosque & Saint Domes in Wadi Sah: Hadramut, forthcoming, Vienna, 2014

3 EXHIBITIONS Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, (Group Exhibition for the 2012 Award Laureates), May- Sep Cité de l Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris & Madrid Escuela de Arquitectura, Madrid, April 2013 Al Bilad, with Daw an Mud Brick Foundation, Yemen, HOME Exhibition (Museum of Architecture) held at The Mosaic Rooms, London 20 June- 8 July 2012 Arabia Felix Exhibition, RIBA London, November 2007 to February Arabian Sites on the Architecture of Oman, at the RIBA 1998 Cities on the Edge (World Circuit Art) at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 1997 Zillij with John Hedgecoe at the Royal College of Art (RCA) 1993 RECENT REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS Pre 2008: See EVENTS Plenary Session: Women and the Built Environment: Designing for Opportunity Clinton Global Award Initiative, 24 September BBC Arabic TV Afaq: Arab Contemporary Home 27 June Remembering Hassan Fathy Egypt s Green Architect of the People Green Prophet Arwa Aburawa 11 June 2012 Global Awards: ARQ Diario de Arquitectura Clarín (Argentine) 05 June 2012 arq.clarin.com Prince Claus Partners Honoured Iraqi Mud Architect Talks Sustainability and Corruption in the Middle East Green Prophet (Exclusive Interview) Arwa Aburawa- 26 May Medi 1 Radio- Tanger Maghreb Pour une autre architecture Abdelwahab Meddeb- 19 May Le Monde Cinq artisans d'une architecture "durable" recompenses Sophie Landrin 16 April Al Hayat Newspaper Salma Damluji turammim Husun al Yaman bilturath Arlette Khoury 30 April Le Courrier de l'architecte Global Award 2012: «la culture avant tout» 25 April 2012 Portrait Salma Samar Damluji rénove le patrimoine pour sauver l'avenir Le Courrier de l'architecte Entretien Salma Samar Damluji, l'autre architecture Propos recueillis par Emmanuelle Borne 28 March 2012

4 Mukalla Today Dr Salma Damluji tahsal ala ja izah duwalliyah lil imara al mustadamah 29 April Iraqi Mud Architect Wins Prestigious Sustainability Award Green Prophet, Arwa Aburawa 7 May Alef Magazine Issue 6 pp On Film Islam Is : Advisor on sites in the Islamic World for film locations with director Tarsem Singh (April-July 2009) Architect: Queen of the Desert, Awards Review BBC: Recipients of the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Al Arabiya TV: The Migration of Hadramis Series, in Part 1 Public Lectures & Conferences 2013 Madrid Escuela de Arquitectura (School of Architecture, Madrid April) 12th Canova International Architect Encounter (June) International Conference on Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture, CIAV ºATP VerSus, Portugal, 16th-20th October 2011 Speaker: Who Needs Beauty: Prince Claus Awards, Amsterdam, December Victoria & Albert Museum Asian Arts Course, November Panel Speaker Prince Claus, Cultural Emergency in Conflict & Disaster, The Hague, September The Arabian Seminar, British Museum, London: Restoration of the Mosques of Sah & Aynat, July 2010 April ARCHITERRE: Earthen Architecture, Alger, Ministry of Culture, Algeria Victoria & Albert Museum Asian Arts Course 2009 Victoria & Albert Museum, Asian Arts Course 2008 Royal Institute of British Architects, Feb. CEFAS, San a, March

5 Victoria & Albert Museum, Asian Arts Course, Nov Keynote Speech, Antalya Stone Conference, Antalya, Turkey (Dec. 07) Victoria and Albert Islamic Arts Course, (Nov. 07) METU Ankara University, (Dec.07) ASL Architects, London (Oct.07) Brac University Department of Architecture, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Sep.07) Sabaen Conference, Yemeni Culture & Civilisation Aden (April 07) The Arabian Seminar, British Museum, London (July 07) 2006 Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona; La Mecca: Cosmopolis in the Desert Conference SOAS Islamic Art Circle: The Yemen Architecture Project: From Yafi to Hadramut