Salma Samar Damluji

In 2008, she established the Daw'an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation[1] in Hadramaut, with colleagues in Yemen and has been working there on earth construction and rehabilitation projects.

[citation needed] In 2014, Damluji was the first woman architect invited to give the Leçon Inaugurale[3][4] at the École de Chaillot in Paris, the tenth in the series.

[citation needed] In 2013, she was appointed to the Mu‘allim Awad Binaldin Chair for Professor of Architecture in the Islamic World, at the American University of Beirut.

Damluji was a senior tutor at the Architectural Association (AA) Graduate School and at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London (UK).

[citation needed] Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation was established in 2007-8, by Salma Samar Damluji and her colleagues in Yemen, Dr. Abdullah BaGhumyan and Architect Ali Ba Saad.

Meeting at Masjid al Faqih with (left to right): Keeper of the Mosque, Sayyid Abu Bakr al-Hamid, Salma Samar Damluji, Mansab ‘Aynat ‘Umar al-Hamid, ‘Umar BaSa‘d (our driver) and Karamah ‘Ubayd ‘Ulaywah. ©Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation, 2012
‘Umar Ba Wazir Mosque ©Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture, 2010
Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture team at the Shaklanza Mosque ©Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture, 2019
Al Habib Hamad Bin Salih Domes ©Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture, 2019
Al Habib Hamad Bin Salih Domes ©Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture, 2019