Sama El Saket is a Jordanian architect and ceramicist.

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She explores new applications for local materials and crafts

in architecture while documenting traditional techniques

historically practiced in Jordan. 

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She is the founder and director of Haswa Ceramics, the first architectural ceramics production and manufacturing

workshop in Jordan. By combining traditional shaping methods with contemporary manufacturing techniques, her practice highlights the unique colors, textures, and histories embedded in Jordanian clay.

 

As a materials specialist, Sama brings a rigorous research methodology to architectural projects—studying locally available resources, traditional craft, historic materials, and waste byproducts from industries like mining and agriculture. Her work embraces both ancient vernacular techniques and new material explorations, aiming to ground contemporary architecture in a deeper understanding of place and

material culture.

 

She has worked as an architectural designer with Toshiko

Mori Architect in New York and Kengo Kuma and Associates

in Tokyo. 

 

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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