Salma Samar Damluji

A leading voice in vernacular architecture and post-conflict reconstruction joins us as keynote speech at the INTBAU World Congress 2025.

Architect and scholar with over four decades of work in traditional architecture and post-conflict reconstruction. Founder of Daw‘an Architecture Foundation (2007–2024) and co-founder of Earth Architecture Lab (2022). Former Professor of the Binladin Chair at the American University of Beirut and collaborator of Hassan Fathy. Directed major heritage projects across Yemen and advised on landmark developments in Abu Dhabi, including the Grand Mosque. Author of The Architecture of Yemen and Earth & Utopia. Read more about Salma Samar’s career.