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Curriculum Vitae 2019

SALMA SAMAR DAMLUJI Residence Lebanon C/O American University of Beirut, Bliss Street, Beirut UK 177 Old Brompton Rd. London SW5 0AN, UK Email: ssdamluji@aub.edu.lb | salmasamar@damluji.org Website: www.dawanarchitecturefoundation.org Nationality BRITISH | IRAQI Place & DOB: Beirut 1954 Academic Qualifications 1987 PhD(RCA) The Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 1977 AA Dipl. RIBA II The Architectural Association School of Architecture 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES Current Position 2013- Professor of Architecture in the Islamic World Mu‘allim Mohammad b. ‘Awad Binladin Chair Department of Architecture and Design Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture The American University of Beirut Architect & Consultant Consultant to international agencies, professional practice and institutions that include RIBA, ICOMOS, Prince Claus Fund/CER (Cultural Emergency Response) on Arab cities, urban heritage and vernacular architecture. Chief Architect & Consultant: Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation, Mukalla (2007-) Field Speciality Islamic, Contemporary & Vernacular Architecture, Architectural Rehabilitation & Reconstruction, Earth Building & Sustainable Architecture Project & Research Areas North Africa | Middle East | Arabia: Yemen, Oman, Qatar, UAE, KSA | India: Rajasthan AWARDS Member of the Academie d’Architecture, Paris 2017 The French Academy of Architecture, Médaille de la Restauration, 2015 (Paris) The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2012 (Paris), The Locus Foundation http://locus-foundation.org/index2.htm http://www.global-award.org/ Nominated for the Aga Khan Awards for the Daw‘an MudBrick Foundation projects in Yemen for the 2011/13 - 2014/16 -2017/19 cycles. MEMBERSHIP Professional Institutions ▪ The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London ▪ The Society of Authors, London ▪ The British Yemeni Society, London ▪ The Clinton Global Initiative, New York, 2012-6 ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN PROJECTS Recent | Ongoing Consultancy

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2017- Professional Partner The Prince Claus Fund, Cultural Emergency Response, CER Network on the joint project ‘Structural Reinforcement and Damp-Proofing MudBrick Architecture’.

2016- Study, Design, Renovation and Rehabilitation for Abdullah Aljaber Palace (Museum of

Art and Culture) Sharq, Kuwait: Technical Consultant on Earth building and construction, to the professional practice Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. Cambridge, Mass. And to prepare file to be nominated to the World Heritage List.

2016 ICOMOS advisory mission to offer advice on a potential World Heritage nomination of Almaa village in Saudi Arabia. Asir Province, Saudi Arabia 2016, Mission for the International Council of Monuments and Sites to review and assess the architecture and condition of the town of Rujal Alma, Asir-nominated by UNESCO to the World Heritage List.

2014 RIBA Oman, Irfan City 2014. Jury Member, Royal Institute of British Architects

International Design Competition, appointed by Omran (Oman Tourist and Development Company), to select a master planning consultant team for the Irfan Urban Development project in Oman.

2014- Prince Claus Fund: Cultural Emergency Response (CER), The Netherlands. Assist

the PCF CER in evaluating and assessing projects for funding; to prevent and mitigate the post-war destruction of cultural and urban heritage in Yemen. Collaborate in sourcing and verifying sites, and local institutions.

Architectural Rehabilitation & Reconstruction Projects Project Architect & Consultant 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, earth and sustainable architecture. A good number of projects were implemented, in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund, Cultural Emergency Response (The Netherlands). Current projects include the Emergency Works on the City of Shibam, Wadi Hadramut. 2019

Recipient of the Cultural Protection Fund Grant by the British Council in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of five sites in Hadramut, Yemen.

2009-2014

Project Architect & Consultant: Qarn Majid, Daw‘an the restoration and rehabilitation of Husn Qarn Majid, Daw‘an Shibam, Wadi Hadramut, the reconstruction of a tower house and restoration of baSahi house, and renovation of 10 other roof terraces The Restoration of Al Faqih Mosque in ‘Aynat, Wadi Hadramut, Yemen The Restoration of Bawazir Ghayl ‘Umar Mosque, Sah- Hadramut, Yemen The Reconstruction of 4 Wali Tombs in Sayqat al Sadah, Sah- Hadramut, Yemen The Restoration of 3 Wali Tombs in Sah Cemetery, Hadramut, Yemen

2008- Project Architect & Consultant: Ribat Ba‘Ashan (housing cluster of 12 private

houses) is also underway with feasibility studies and design proposals presented to the Client, updated 2015.

2008-2013

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Project Architect & Consultant: Contract for emergency works and rescue of partially collapsed or damaged structures in Daw‘an and Wadi Hadramut after the floods of 2006 & 2008. Includes the reinforcement, restoration and renovation of residential, mosques and cemetery sites in Sah & ‘Aynat (as above). The Architectural Rehabilitation of Masna‘at Daw‘an; Site of 13 buildings in Wadi Daw‘an, Hadramut-undergoing renovation for a Heritage Hotel for a Private Client/Investor.

March-July 2007

On Site Review, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva for The City of Shibam (Wadi Hadramut) & ‘Amiriyyah Madrasah in Rada‘ (Yemen) subsequently both received Awards, KL-Malaysia September 2007.

Nov 2001 -April 2004 Architectural Advisor to HH Shaykh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime

Minister and Chairman of The Works Department, Abu Dhabi Emirate. Acted as representative to Client in selecting and inviting international architects and

designers for major architectural projects. Architects included Renzo Piano BW, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Mueron, Paul Andreau, Claudio Silverstrin, Dale Chihuly, James Turell; Supervising and Managing Projects on sites, coordinating and liaising between government institutions and international consultants, design and project management teams on behalf of the Client. Set up projects, concepts, contracts, and expedite decisions and procedures with The Executive Council, Town Planning Committees and Gov. Finance Department.

Design work included working closely with Consultants, Contractors, Artists and Craftsmen, providing design briefs, developing designs, supervising ongoing work on the sites and seeing through the contract and tender stages.

PROJECTS: The Shaykh Zayed Grand Mosque Development of Lulu Island Theatre at Breakwater Lulu Island Cultural Development Nahel Mosque Private Projects & Residences in Abu Dhabi Emirate. April 2002-November 2003 Director Technical Office of HH The Chairman, The Works Department, Abu Dhabi Tasks included overseeing the set up of the entire Technical Office, Design

Competitions, the selection and appointment of international and local architects/firms for public projects; the management of key and ‘Special (Public and Private) Projects’.

May 2001 Technical Reviewer, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva; The SOS Village in

Aqabah- Award winner in October 2001 Sep. 2000 Design Consultant Salzburg Mosque & Islamic Centre Design Competition, Zaha

Hadid Ltd. London 1998-1999 Advisor Architectural & Urban Rehabilitation of the Interior Towns in the Sultanate of

Oman, Diwan of the Sultan’s Court, Muscat 1988-1995 Consultant to Minister of Culture and Governor of Hadramut in Yemen; Centre for

Yemeni Architecture, Tarim, Wadi Hadramut, to develop the mud brick architecture of the region and train builders to rehabilitate the architectural heritage there.

1993-1994 Project Director: Documentation Project on ‘The New Extension for the Prophet's Holy Mosque in Madinah’ and ‘The Holy Mosque at Makkah’, Saudi Arabia. Areen, London

1993 Design Consultant BBC 2 Educational Television Series, Mud Brick Architecture

(Yemen) in the series: Wall to Wall

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1991-2 Advisor to Minister of Culture, the Architectural rehabilitation scheme for Ouarzazate and High Atlas Region, Ministry of Culture, Rabat, Morocco

1991 Assistant Architect, K. Critchlow & Assoc. Madinah Islamic University Design Project, Dar al Riyadh, London

1984 & 1975-6 Assistant Architect to Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy, Cairo 1982 -1983 Architect, at MUDUN, architects and town planners, Beirut 1982 Architect with Alousi & Associates, Baghdad State Mosque Competition, Munster-

Germany. 1980-1982 Human Settlement Officer UN Economic Commission for Western Asia; Social and

Human Settlement Division, Beirut Regional Office: Worked projects for developing vernacular architecture and urban settlements of Muharraq in Bahrain, San‘a’ and Hadramut in Yemen.

1978 -1981 Art Director Dar al Muthallath, Design, Printing & Publishing, Beirut. Research, Graphic Design for Islamic architecture publications programme

ACADEMIC & APPOINTMENTS 2019- Appointed Consultant to the University of Say‘un, Hadramut, Yemen for the set up of the College of Earth Architecture. 2013- Professor Binladin Chair for Architecture in the Islamic World, Architecture & Design Faculty of Engineering - American University of Beirut (for list of courses taught see below) 2018- Principal Architect Sponsor of the Architecture and Champagne Summer School in Châlons-en-Champagne, France, July 2018. 2018- President of the Jury the W.A.V.E. Workshop, Iuav Venice, July 2018. 2018- Recipient of the URB Funding grant for the project entitled “Earth Architecture: Cities of the Desert Route” 2016-7 External Reviewer to Promotion Committee at SOAS University of London (Simon O'Meara candidate for promotion to Senior Lecturer). 2017 WAVE Workshop IUAV, Syria- the Making of the Future: Re-Inventing Maʿlula? Architecture University of Venice (June-July) 2016-18 PhD & Master’s of Architecture Advisor, IUAV Venice and Cambridge University 2007-2012 Lecturer on the V&A Islamic Arts of Asia Course 2006-08 Royal College of Art Member of The Court appointed by the Senate 1998-1999 Advisor to HRH The Prince of Wales’s Urban Foundation, on the Islamic Architecture & Design curricula with Dr. Geoffrey King (SOAS) 1994-1998 PhD Supervisor Royal College of Art, London 1994-1996 Academic Coordinator, RCA Asilah Studios (Morocco) Royal College of Art 1994-1997 Lecturer Islamic Architecture Course School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993-1998 Lecturer Sotheby's Islamic Arts Course, School of Oriental and African Studies 1991-1997 Senior Tutor Architectural Association School of Architecture, Graduate School, Housing & Urbanism 1989-1993 Tutor Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts, Royal College of Art, London 1989, 1990 & 2000 Recipient of the Barkat Trust Award for short term scholars, and the Barakat Travel Grant. The Oriental Institute - Oxford University, UK. 1989 -1990 Visiting Lecturer, AA, Graduate School, Housing, London 1988-1989 Course Convener & Lecturer, Islamic & Yemeni Architecture, intensive course, Faculty of Engineering, University of Aden. 1987-1989 Research Fellow on The Project: Mud Brick Architecture in Hadramut. The Royal College of Art, London- funded by The Leverhulme Trust. 1977-1981 Fine Arts Lecturer, Beirut University College 1978 -1982 Lecturer Islamic Art & Architecture, Dept. of Archaeology, Lebanese University, Beirut

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EXHIBITIONS - 2017 IUAV Architecture University of Venice Wave exhibition on Ma‘lula (June-July): Construction of life size dome for Ma‘lula -2017 AA XX 100 AA Women in Architecture 1917-2017 (7 October-9 December) -2017 Sketch for Syria, art works exhibited at IUAV Venice (January-February) http://sketchforsyria.iuav.it/ and published in Domus http://www.domusweb.it/content/domusweb/en/news/2017/01/17/iuav_sketch_for_syria.html 2014-2017 Re-Enchant the World, group exhibition of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Palais du Chaillot, Paris, May-October 2014 2014 Consultant to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark for the exhibition Arab Contemporary: Architecture, Culture and Identity, January- May 2014 2013 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, (Group Exhibition for the Award Laureates) Madrid Escuela de Arquitectura (School of Architecture, Madrid April 2013) and in Paris Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, May 2013 2012 HOME: Contemporary Architectural Interpretations of the Home in the Arab World MoA (Museum of Architecture), The Mosaic Rooms, London, 20 June- 8 July http://museumofarchitecture.org/exhibitions-and-events-current/ http://www.mosaicrooms.org/home/ 2007 ARABIA FELIX: The Architecture of Yemen, RIBA London (Nov 2007-Feb 2008) 1998 Arabian Sites: The Architecture of Oman, RIBA London 1997 Cities on the Edge, The Architecture of Yemen, RIBA London 1994 Morocco Asilah Studios AV, The Royal College of Art, London 1992 Zillij AV, with John Hedgecoe-RCA, London 1992 Zillïj: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics, with John Hedgecoe. RCA 1990 Architecture in South Yemen, Zamana Gallery, London FILM & ON FILM 2018 President of Jury Iuav Wave 2018, Video of the award ceremony http://wave2018iuav.com/w-a-ve-2018-italian-beauty-il-video-della-premiazione/ 2017 Arab Cultural Heritage Forum recorded by Ricardo Karam team featured on Future TV 2016

Interview

April 2016 Venice: IUAV Conference on Urbicide Syria

http://www.positive-magazine.com/urbicide-syria-whats-next-war/ 2014 Qarn Majid: Reconstruction, Dawan Earth Earth, with Roger Moukarzel, for Re-enchant the World Exhibition, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine 2014 Damluji, in Interview Marie Hélène Contal, for Re-enchant the World Exhibition, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris May- October 2014

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2013 Sun Dust: Shibam with Roger Moukarzel 2009 ‘Islam Is’: Advisor on sites in the Islamic World for film locations with director Tarsem Singh (April-July) http://myislamis.me/#/english/ourcampaigns 2007 ‘Architect: Queen of the Desert’, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ZlZH-JpV8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-gxbYq_SM&feature=related Awards Review BBC: Recipients of the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture http://www.akdn.org/videos_detail.asp?VideoId=10

Al Arabiya TV: The Migration of Hadramis Series, in Part 1 AUB 2013-2019: COURSES & GRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAMMES

Fall 2013-4 ARCH 508 (7credits) Final Year Project I- Design Thesis 1 Spring 2013-4 ARCH 509 (7credits) Final Year Project II- Design Thesis II Spring 2013-4 New Elective (Theory) ARCH 030 Architecture & Culture: Regional and Vernacular Design -Set up the AUB Fes Workshop in collaboration with ADER (Agence pour la dedensification et la rehabilitation de la medina de Fes) Fall 2014-5 ARCH 508: (7credits) FYP I: Design Thesis 1 Fall 2014-2015 Elective (Theory) ARCH 030: Architecture & Culture: Regional and Vernacular

Design (Fes-Morocco Workshop II)

Spring 2014-5 New Elective (Theory) ARCH 039 Earth: Design & Building Spring 2014-5 ARCH 305 and ARCH 407: (6 credits) Design Studio Vertical Studios I & II Salma Samar Damluji & Simone Kosremelli Title QAB ELIAS: A SUSTAINABLE INTERVENTION RESPECTFUL OF THE ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY OF A SMALL CITY Fall 2015-2016 Elective (Professional) ARCH 065: Architecture & Culture: Geometry & Islamic Design (Fes- Morocco Workshop III) ARCH 508 (7credits) FYP I: Design Thesis 1 Spring 2015-2016 Elective (Theory) ARCH 039 Earth: Design & Building Fall 2016-2017 Elective (Professional) ARCH 065: Architecture & Culture: Geometry & Islamic Design (Fes- Morocco Workshop IV) ARCH 508 (7credits) FYP I: Design Thesis 1 Spring 2016-2017 Research Leave -URBICIDE Conference proposed, initiated and set up with CAH/AUB April 2017 (see Conferences) -Complete publication to submit to Laurence King Publishing in London, entitled Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia, August 2017

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-Wave Workshop IUAV Venice: The Future of Syria (3 weeks: 24 June -14 July 2017) conducted workshop with 25 other invited international architects/ to 26 studios. 50 students subscribed to the Studio I led on the City of Ma’lula. 2016-7 Graduate Students Thesis Advising Master’s Students Renzo Tolomeo (Iuav-ArD)/ Advisor Martina Germana (Iuav-ArD)/ Advisor PhD Students Alessandro Dal Corso (Iuav-ArD)/ Advisor Thesis title: Breaking Ground Public-Private Strategies in The Postwar City Reconstruction Wessam Asali, Cambridge University Department of Architecture, Thesis Title: Building Crafts in Architecture, (investigating tensile vaulting techniques in Spain)

Fall 2017-2018 Elective (Professional) ARCH 065: Architecture & Culture: Geometry & Islamic Design (Fes- Morocco Workshop V) Course & Syllabus Development: for ARCH 304 Vertical Travel Studio, Siwa Oasis (Egypt) for Spring 2017-8 (Destruction, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation) Spring 2017-2018 Elective (History &Theory) ARCH 039 Earth: Design & Building Design Vertical Travel Studio ARCH 304 Destruction Reconstruction Rehabilitation: Synergies between vernacular constructions & cutting-edge technologies, Siwa Oasis, Egypt Professor Salma Samar Damluji & Dr Raffi Tchakerian Fall 2018-2019 Elective (Professional) ARCH 065: Architecture & Culture: Geometry & Islamic Design (Fes- Morocco Workshop VI) ARCH 508 Final Year Project I - Design Thesis Studio I Spring 2018-2019 Elective (History &Theory) ARCH 039 Earth: Design & Building Lecture and Workshop conducted by architect Ammar Khammash 11-13 March on Natural Material & Traditional Techniques: Looking into the Future. NEW Programmes Set Up at AUB Ard FEA ARCH 304 Vertical Travel Studio, Siwa Oasis (Egypt) 2018 Set up a Travel Studio and workshop for ArD students in Siwa Egypt (Destruction, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation) with the cooperation of EQI and the participation of the March professional program at the University of Architecture in Venice (Iuav). FES-AUB Workshop since 2013 Set up a workshop for our students in the old Madinah of Fes to work on projects for the architectural rehabilitation of the city. This was set up as part of the new elective on Islamic Architecture and Design, and has proved highly popular and successful. The course has since been running as a professional field elective. ERASMUS PROGRAMME PLUS / Set up 2015 Developed ERASMUS PROGRAMME PLUS agreement with IUAV Venice University of Architecture, and Faculty of Engineering and Architecture for the exchange of post graduate students, faculty and administration. The programme has been successfully running since Fall 2016 and has recently been approved for funding by the EU for a third year up to 2018-9. ARCHITECTURE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES / 2014-2017

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Graduate Studies at the Architecture and Design Department Chair of Graduate Programme Committee, prepared two new proposals for the PhD in Architecture programme and MArch II programme. Developed and set up the PhD and Masters of Architecture Programme proposals for FEA Ard, submitted and approved by the Board of Graduate Studies (January 2016), Senate and BOT (March 2017). SUSTAINABLE DESIGN WEEK / Set up and convened since 2015 Seminar and Workshop for students for the duration of 3 days at ArD originated and set up with Professor Karim Najjar at ArD. Proposed, coordinated and invited international architects/speakers to contribute and participate. First Conference was started in fall 2015 and has been ongoing yearly sponsored by Areen Lecture Series. 2018 Crisis as Opportunity: Taking Crisis as an Opportunity for Innovation and Sustainable Design. 2017 Rethinking Regional Design Tools and Strategies 2016 High Tech | Low Tech | Rethinking Regional Design Tools & Strategies 2015 Low Tech versus High Tech a Regional Perspective PUBLICATIONS: Books

• Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia, (Laurence King Publishing, London 2018) https://www.laurenceking.com/product/hassan-fathy/

• 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). https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/publication/salma-samar-damluji.

• Al Diwan Al Amiri, Doha, Qatar, Laurence King Publishing, London 2013

• 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

• The Architecture of Yemen From Yafi’ to Hadramut, Laurence King Publishing, London 2007

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

• The Architecture of the UAE, Garnet Publishing, Reading 2006

• The Architecture of Oman, Reading 1998

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

• Ed. The Architecture of the Holy Mosque Makkah, London 1998

• Zillij The Art of Moroccan Ceramics, with John Hedgecoe; Reading 1992 (French Edition 1993)

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

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

• A Yemen Reality; Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone, Reading 1991

• The Visual Diary of an Arab Architect, Maath Alousi, Beirut & London 1983

FORTHCOMING BOOKS

• Urbicide Conference Proceedings (Urban Killing and Postwar Reconstruction in Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen), convened at AUB, CAH, April 2017 (IB Tauris, London), Editor with Professor Timothy Harrison (AUB-Toronto University), submitted 2018

• The Architecture of Yemen and its Reconstruction, (Laurence King Publishing, London) 2020

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NEW DESIGN RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Desert Architecture (Central Asia, Iran, Arabia, Egypt & North Africa) 2018-

• Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan-India, (with Karni Jasol, Curator and Director of Mehrangarh Fort Museum) field work conducted 2012

BOOK CHAPTERS 2018 ‘A Mosque & Saint Domes in Wadi Sah: Hadramut (YEMEN)’, in earth construction & tradition vol 2 Ed. Hubert Feiglstorfer, IVA-ICRA (Institute for Comparative Research on Architecture) Vienna University of Technology, Vienna (pp.313-337) 2017 ‘Re-inventing M’alula’ in Wave 2017 | Syria (Syria the Making of the Future + 26 workshop), Incipit (Italy) https://www.incipiteditore.it/prodotto/wave-2017-syria/ ‘La Médina et le renouveau de la ville nomade [The Medina and nomad urban renewal]’, in La Ville Rebelle, Ed. Jana Revedin, Paris, 2015 ‘Salma Samar Damluji’ in Sustainable Design III, vers une nouvelle ´ethique pour l’architecture et la ville, Contal, Marie-Hélène and Revedin, Jana, Paris, 2014 (pp.82-95). PUBLISHED ARTICLES 2018 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 2016 Winter 2016 Vol. XIV AUB MainGate Magazine, Revitalizing Old Fes pp. 40-43 1979- 2011 (Italics denote Arabic titles) ‘Modern Design Versus Tradition’ in UR Magazine, London, Mar/Apr 1979 Al ‘imarah al ‘arabiyyah al mu‘asirah, Fonoun Arabiya quarterly, London, No.2 1981 Abhath min nadwat al madinah al ‘arabiyyah: khasa'isiha wa turathiha al hadari al islami', Al Mustaqbal Al Arabi, Beirut, No.54 August 1983 ‘Tradition Rehabilitation and Urban Planning, Some lessons from the mud brick architecture of the Hadramout valley in Yemen', UR Magazine, London, no.2, 1985 ‘The Poetics of Architectural Space: An interview with Hassan Fathy', UR Magazine, London, No.4 1985 & ALIF, A.U.C. Cairo 1986 ‘Islamic Architecture in the Modern World’, Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the Middle East and North Africa, Edts. Mostyn & Hourani, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988 Hasan Fathy and the Story of Gourna, in Al Hayat, London, issues 18 to 21 October 1988 The Architecture of Du‘an, in Al Hayat, London 7 November 1988 ‘Building on the Organic’, in Building Design, London, May 11, 1990 ‘Zillij’; ‘Hadramut’; ‘Shluh Architecture’ in Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Editor Paul Oliver, Blackwells, Oxford 1997 Yemen, Reflections: al Hayat Arabic Daily, London, October & November 1994 ‘The Architecture of Tarim & Shibam’, in SABA, Aix en Provence ‘Architectural Terms of Upper Yafi‘ in South Yemen’, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies vol.26-1996 ‘Imarat al Qulub, Al Hayat Newspaper, 3 feature articles, April London 2000

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Letter from Yafa‘, British-Yemeni Society Journal, Vol.8, July 2000 http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/damluji00.htm ‘Building Design in Wadi Hajr, Hadramawt’. Studies on Arabia in Honour of G Rex Smith, Ed. Healey, JF and Porter, V. Oxford 2002. ‘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 & 29th, 2006 ‘The Holy City: Architecture and Urban Life in the Shadow of God’, CCCB, Barcelona, 2006 http://www.cccb.org/en/publicacio-the_holy_city_architecture_and_urban_life_in_the_shadow_of_god-38025# ‘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.208-221, Rotterdam 2011 http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/activities/book-fair-cultural-emergency-in-conflict-and-disaster.html# BYS Bulletin, ‘The Restoration of Masjid Al Faqih in ‘Aynat, Wadi Hadramut’, Volume 19.2011 London 2011 http://www.al-bab.com/bys/journal.htm PAPERS & PROJECT REPORTS Building for Families with Limited Income, UNESCO Seminar on Housing, Dec.1978, Tunis The Crisis in Contemporary Arab Architecture', Union of Iraqi Architects Seminar, Sept.1980, Baghdad On the Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of the city of Muharraq; Bahrain', UN ECWA Mission Report, July 1981 On the Question of Building for the Homeless and Displaced in South Lebanon', Office of the UN Secretary's Special Commission to Beirut Architecture and Urban Planning in Wadi Hadramut, Conference of the Arab Urban Development Institute and Arab Cities Organization, April 1985, Istanbul-Turkey The rehabilitation of architecture in Hadramut, Field Trip Report London March 1985 Yemeni architecture in Hadramut, Yafi‘ and Aden Governorates', Field Trip Report London April 1987 The City of Shibam: An Architectural Appraisal, The Shibam Seminar, Aden, Feb.1988 Assessment on the situation of architecture in the towns of Shibam, Du‘an, Shihr and Dali‘, Field Trip Report London May 1988. The Establishment of a Centre for Yemeni Architecture Project Proposal: London 1987 Memorandum: London 1988, Project Document: London 1989 Intensive Course on Yemeni Architecture, University of Aden, Jan.1989 Seminar outline: Yemeni Architecture in the Nineties, April 1989 Report on the field trip to PDR Yemen: Aden, Shabwah and Hadramut, London April 1989 The Relevance of Architecture in south Yemen; The Oxford University Colloquium on Islamic Art: Recent Researches in Arabia, June 1990 Mud Brick Architecture in Hadramut 1987-1989 : Final Report, Royal College of Art, October 1990. The Art of Architecture in Hadramut ; Colloque 'Art et Environnement', 13eme & 14eme Moussem Culturel d'Asilah, Morocco, August 1990 & 1991. Yemen Field Trip Reports 1992 & 1993 : The Architectural Rehabilitation for Jiblah and Hadramut Centre for Yemeni Architecture; Project Document, London & San‘a' 1993-1995 Remaking the Islamic City Seminar : The Context & Challanges, AA, London 1993 Asilah Architecture Colloquium, Moroccan Popular Architecture, Asilah 1993 Asilah Architecture Colloquium, The Other Environment, Morocco 1994 The Architecture of Oman, Field Trip Report, RCA London 1993, 1995 & 1996 The Architecture of the UAE, FT Report 1996

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Islamic Architecture & Design Course (with Dr GRD King), The Prince of Wales’s Urban Foundation, London 1999 The Urban Rehabilitation of Towns in the Sultanate: Harat al Jami‘ Adm, 1999 The SOAS Village in Aqabah, Technical Review, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2001 The Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, Islamic Design Report, November 2001 The Grand State Mosque, Concepts & Meaning, November 2001 Centre for Mud Brick Architecture in Yemen, Report to the Prime Minister of Yemen April 2005 Chair for Mud Brick Architecture, University of Hadramut, April 2005 & 2009 The Architectural Transformation of Makkah: History & Present, Barcelona March 2006 Shibam Urban Development Project, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Technical Report 2007 Al Amiriyyah Madrasah, Rada‘, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Technical Report 2007 Masna‘at ‘Urah Project, Final Report 2008, Cultural Emergency Response Prince Claus Fund Ghayl Umar Mosque & Wali Tombs of Sah, Final Report 2010, Cultural Emergency Response Prince Claus Fund Restoration of ‘Aynat Mosque, Final Report 2010, Cultural Emergency Response Prince Claus Fund Husn Qarn Majid, Final Report 2014, Cultural Emergency Response Prince Claus Fund Shibam The Reconstruction and Restoration of two Houses, Final Report 2014, Cultural Emergency Response Prince Claus Fund Al Bin Ladin Complex| Ribat Ba ‘Shan, Wadi Daw‘an Hadramut. Architectural Rehabilitation Project, April 2009 (updated 2015) ICOMOS World Council of Monuments, Report on Rujal Almaa, Asir Saudi Arabia October 2016

Peer Reviewer Mss. 2017 Brill Publishers, The Netherlands, Book manuscript: Earth in Islamic Architecture, Historical and anthropological perspectives; Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World series. (242pp.) 2016 IJIA International Journal of Islamic Architecture Special Issue on Imagining Localities of Antiquity in Islamicate Societies; Thematic volume planned for Summer 2017 In honor of the life of Dr. Khaled al-Asaad Referee for the Design in Practice paper entitled: ‘The Noble Sanctuary; Destruction and Renewal at the Heart of Islam’. REVIEWS December 2018: The Observer

‘Windows on creative genius’ by Rowan Moore

November 2018: Financial Times

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

https://on.ft.com/2DOkR59

November 8, 2018: Corriere della Sera

‘Hassan Fathy: l’utopia continua’ by Testo Massimo di Conto

http://living.corriere.it/tendenze/architettura/hassan-fathy-lutopia-continua/

November 2018, UK: World of Interiors

‘Hassan Fathy Earth & Utopia, Books Review’ by David Gleeson

October 2018 Wallpaper magazine

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

https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/hassan-fathy-book-laurence-king

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October 2018 Architectural Digest Middle East

‘Book Review: Hassan Fathy’s tale of Earth & Utopia’ by Jumana Abdel-Razzaq

https://www.admiddleeast.com/book-review-hassan-fathys-tale-of-earth-utopia

2014 Le Courrier de l’Architecte: ‘Compte Rendu Le coeur subtil de Salma Samar Damluji’ (19.03.2014) Review (Leçon Inaugurale delivered in Paris), Jean Philippe Hugron, http://www.lecourrierdelarchitecte.com/article_5562 Paris 2014Architecture Aujord’hui Events, Hors-Série: Ré-enchanter Le Monde Architecture, Ville, Transitions, (pp.80-81). PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS 2016 April,Venice: IUAV Conference on Urbicide Syria

http://www.positive-magazine.com/urbicide-syria-whats-next-war/

Positive Magazine www.positive-magazine.com

2012-2015 Winter 2016 Vol. XIV AUB MainGate Magazine, Revitalizing Old Fes pp. 40-43 2016 The University of Chicago, The Oriental Institute Interview with Professor Salma Samar Damluji Investigating a Neolithic Dwelling (Investigation Packet) in Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University, co-edited and co-authored by Letts, Cali A. and Jeanne M. Moe

2015 Culture Is A Basic Need: Revisited

REFLECTIONS ON TEN YEARS OF CULTURAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Report on conference held November 2013, Amsterdam, interview pp.16-18

Prince Claus Fund & Cultural Emergency Response, The Netherlands,

Plenary Session: Women and the Built Environment: Designing for Opportunity Clinton Global Award Initiative, 24 September 2012 http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/2012/webcast/

BBC Arabic TV Afaq: Arab Contemporary Home, 27 June 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIkyzyll0hQ&feature=youtu.be Remembering Hassan Fathy – Egypt’s Green Architect of the People Green Prophet Arwa Aburawa 11 June 2012 http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/06/remembering-hassan-fathy-egypts-green-architect-of-the-people/ Global Awards: ARQ Diario de Arquitectura Clarín (Argentine) 05 June 2012 arq.clarin.com Prince Claus Partners Honoured http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/news/prince-claus-fund-partners-honored.html Iraqi Mud Architect Talks Sustainability and Corruption in the Middle East Green Prophet (Exclusive Interview) Arwa Aburawa- 26 May 2012 http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/05/iraqi-mud-architect-interview/ Medi 1 Radio- Tanger Maghreb Pour une autre architecture Abdelwahab MEDDEB 19 May 2012 http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5184571

Iraqi Mud Architect Wins Prestigious Sustainability Award Green Prophet, Arwa Aburawa 7 May 2012 http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/05/iraqi-mud-architect-sustainability/

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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 http://www.lecourrierdelarchitecte.com/dossier_71

Mukalla Today Dr Salma Damluji tahsal ala ja’izah duwalliyah lil ‘imara al mustadamah… 29 April 2012 http://98.130.43.69/pages/Details.aspx?ID=14948&&C=NewsDetails Al Hayat Newspaper Salma Damluji turammim Husun al Yaman bilturath Arlette Khoury 30 April 2012 http://international.daralhayat.com/internationalarticle/390108 Le Monde Cinq artisans d'une architecture "durable" recompenses Sophie Landrin 16 April 2012 http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2012/04/16/cinq-artisans-d-une-architecture-durable-recompenses_1686139_3244.html?xtmc=&xtcr=1

Le Courrier de l'Architecte Entretien | Salma Samar Damluji, l'autre architecture Propos recueillis par Emmanuelle Borne 28 March 2012 http://www.lecourrierdelarchitecte.com/article_2999 Prince Claus Awards Talk Show December 14/ 2011 CER Newsletter, Amsterdam- Prince Claus Fund November 2010 (pp.2-3) British Yemeni Society Journal, Review by Sarah Searight- The Architecture of Yemen, 2008 http://www.al-bab.com/bys/books/damluji08.html Alef Magazine Issue 6 pp.70-73 http://issuu.com/pdezwart/docs/www.alefmag.com Blog Chelsea mia di Alessio Altichieri. Corriere Della Sera http://chelseamia.corriere.it/exhibitions/index2.html

Saudi Aramco World www.saudiaramcoworld.com/departments/default.aspx?mode=reading

archINFORM http://www.book-info.com/isbn/1-85669-514-X.html

The Financial Times, by Richard Holledge 26/27 January 2008- House & Home p.3

BBC World Service, The Ticket, Nov 13, 2007

The Architecture Journal, Review by Peter Davey 7.02.08 pp.45-5 PUBLIC LECTURES, CONFERENCES, PAPERS & WORKSHOPS 2019 Sursock Museum Book Launch

Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia

Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini in conversation with Abdel­ Wahed El­Wakil https://sursock.museum/content/hassan-fathy-earth-utopia 11 April Architectural Association School of Architecture Public Talk New Canonical Histories series ‘Retelling History …’

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https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3969 17 January 2018 International Heritage Workshop, Makli, Pakistan ‘The Daw’an MudBrick Architecture Foundation’ 25-27 October Châlons-en-Champagne Architecture and Champagne Summerschool (UEAC) Principal Architect to sponsor the event 18-31 July W.A.V.E. Workshop, Iuav Venice President of the Jury 8-14 July ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah Arab Forum for Cultural Heritage ‘Rethinking Reconstruction and Rehabilitation’ Sharjah 6-8 February 2017 ICHA International conference on History of Architecture GREHA a society for research on human habitat ‘Architecture or History; On Yemen’ Delhi 7-9 December Interpreting destruction and reconstruction in war situations Universita di Bologna ‘Destruction and Reconstruction: The postwar landscape’ 27-28 October Urbicide II: Post war Reconstruction in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Palestine Conference, centre for Arts and the Humanities (CAH). Organised, developed and initiated the event, international invites, abstract, calls for papers, in coordination with IUAV Venice, UNESCO (Beirut and Paris), the Italian Cultural Centre, Beirut, with CAH, AUB Director. Urbicide Defined ‘Background and Overview’ 6-8 April 2016

IUAV: University of Architecture Venice

URBICIDE SYRIA

6-8 April

Venice Biennale

Salon Suisse: Earth Session

15-17 June

2015

MOSAIC ROOMS & SHUBBAK FESTIVAL

At the British Museum, London

Disappearing Cities of the Arab World

10 July

ARAB WORLD RENEWAL

First international Forum; Thinkers and Doers

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The Future of Arab Cities

Paris, Arab World Institute

15 & 16 January

Islamic and Vernacular Design, Jeddah Arts 21, 39, Jeddah,

Islamic & Earth Architecture: Tibah al Tayibbah Cultural Centre, Jeddah

12 &13 April

RAW EARTH ARCHITECTURE

Carthage Hannibal, Tunis, Beit Al-Hikma, Départment des Arts

6 February

2014

ARCHITECTURE AND LOCAL IDENTITY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

(With University of Notre Dame School of Architecture)

Madrid, Escula Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Madrid, 23 & 24 October Jury member, RIBA Town Planning Competition for new city in Muscat, Oman (June-July) Jury member and Conference moderator: Public Interest Design Competition SEED Network (USA) and the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, April

LEÇON INAUGURALE DE L’ÉCOLE DE CHAILLOT, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine,

Paris, 3 March 2013 Key Speech: Prince Claus Fund Conference, Amsterdam, November Madrid Escuela de Arquitectura (School of Architecture) Madrid, April 12th Canova International Architect Encounter (June) Venice IUAV University of Architecture Lecture: The Architecture of Yemen & Hassan Fathy, Seminar, 15 October 2013 2012 Speaker: Plenary Session: Women and the Built Environment: Designing for Opportunity Clinton Global Award Initiative, New York, 24 September 2012 http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/2012/webcast/

Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, May 2012 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 Organiser: The Earth Architecture Conference, Say’un, Hadramut, February 2010 ARCHITERRE: Earthen Architecture, Alger, Ministry of Culture, Algeria Victoria & Albert Museum Asian Arts Course 2009 Victoria & Albert Museum, Asian Arts Course 2008

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Royal Institute of British Architects, Feb. CEFAS, San‘a’, March Victoria & Albert Museum, Asian Arts Course, Nov. 2007 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 2005 & 2001 Sana’ University, Yemen Aden University, Yemen Hadhramut University of Science and Technology, Mukalla-Yemen 1991-2000 British Yemeni Society, London American University of Sharjah, UAE Hadhramout University, Mukalla, Yemen Aden University, Yemen Islamic Arts Circle, SOAS, London ARAM Conference, Oxford Anglo-Omani Society, London Diwan of the Royal Court, Muscat Cambridge University Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London British Museum, London Anglo-Arab Association, London The Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Oxford Society for Arabian Studies, The British Academy, London Carleton University, School of Architecture, Ottawa International Conference on Yemeni Architecture, Aden SOAS Conference on Moroccan Culture, London Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee Arab Women's Council, London Seminar for Arabian Studies, London & Cambridge 1986-1990 Royal College of Art, London Central & St. Martin's School of Art, London Zamana Gallery, London Institut de Monde Arabe, & UNESCO, Paris School of Architecture, Baghdad University, Baghdad

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EXTERNAL REFERENCES Marie-Hélène Contal, Directrice, Département du Développement Culturel Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine 7 avenue Albert de Mun, Paris 75016 mhcontal@citechaillot.fr Alberto Ferlenga, Rector of the Università Iuav di Venezia, Tolentini, Santa Croce 191, 30135 Venezia, Italy alberto.ferlenga@iuav.it, rettorato@iuav.it. Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Chairman Middle East Centre, University of Edinburgh 19 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK Rhillenbrand@ed.ac.uk Farokh Derakhshani, Director, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1-3 Avenue de la Paix Geneva 1202, Suisse. farrokh.derakhshani@akdn.org Professor Simos Yannas, Director PhD Programme Director, Environment & Energy Studies and Sustainable Environmental Design -Graduate School, AA School of Architecture, 36 Bedford Square London WC1B 3ES simos@aaschool.ac.uk Dr Venetia Porter, Curator Islamic Collection/Middle East, The British Museum, Gt Russell St London WC1B 3DG vporter@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk