Ashraf M. Salama

Dr. Ashraf M. Salama is a Reader in Architecture at Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom. Prior to this, at Qatar University he was a professor of architecture leading efforts in establishing and accrediting a new architectural program (being developed as a full department). He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals-KFUPM in Dhahran, KSA (2004-06). Dr. Salama was the Director of Research and Consulting at Adams Group Consultants in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (2001-04). He is a licensed architect in Egypt, trained at Al Azhar University and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. USA. He was the Chairman of the Department of Architecture, Misr International University in Cairo (1996-01). Dr. Salama has been involved with the Community Development Group of the College of Design, North Carolina State University (1992-95), researching and teaching at the graduate level.

With varied experience in academic research, teaching, design and research based consultancy, Dr. Salama bridges theory and design and pedagogy and practice in his professional activities. He has written over 100 articles and papers in local and international conferences, archival journals, and trade magazines; authored and co-edited five books: New Trends in Architectural Education: Designing the Design Studio (North Carolina, USA-a new expanded edition is being published by Umbau Verlag, Germany), Human Factors in Environmental Design (Cairo, Egypt), Architectural Education Today (Lausanne, Switzerland), Architecture as Language of Peace (Napoli-Rome, Italy), and Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future (Gateshead, United Kingdom). He delivered lectures and presentations in over 25 countries; and contributed widely to several international publications. He was member of the UIA/UNESCO International Committee of Architectural Education, and the Director of Architectural Education Work Program of the International Union of Architects-UIA (1995-00).

Dr. Salama is currently coordinator of the International Association for People-Environments Studies-IAPS Education Network, UK, and serves on the boards of reviewers of Time-based Architecture International and on the Scientific Committees of numerous international conferences. In 2006, he was selected to establish the new online refereed academic output: International Journal of Architectural Research (Archnet-IJAR), sponsored by the Aga Khan trust for Culture, and with technical support of Archnet at MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Recently, he was selected as a board member of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health-IJERPH.Dr. Salama is also a collaborating/associate editor of OHI-Open House International.

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