Sama El Saket is a Jordanian architect and ceramicist. 

 

Her work is focused on exploring new possibilities and applications for local materials and crafts in architecture,

while documenting the techniques and traditions

historically practiced in the country.

 

She is the founder and director of Haswa Ceramics, the

first architectural ceramics production and manufacturing workshop in Jordan, where she oversees all stages of the process—from raw material to final output.

 

She has worked as an architectural designer with Toshiko

Mori Architect in New York and Kengo Kuma and Associates

in Tokyo. Her experience includes the renovation and reprogramming of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, exhibition design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, as well as various other notable cultural, institutional, and residential projects.

 

Sama holds a Master in Architecture (M.Arch II, 2017) from

the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A., B.Arch, 2015).  

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