Alaa Damaj | Architecture, Urban Planning and Writing

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Latest Writing

City ReflectionsThe Proposed Administrative Complex in Barja: Is This Really the Right Site? Seven Questions Before the Choice Is Settled7 June 2026

Selected Studies

The Economic Dimensions of the Public Land Pooling and Re-parcelling System

Barja from Antiquity to the Present

Coming soon

Al-Ain Square – Barja

From an Inclusive Space to a Passage-Way

Publications

Cover of Under the Municipal Dome

Under the Municipal Dome

Pages from a Forgotten Notebook

Public Land Pooling and Re-parcelling in Lebanon

Between Text and Practice

The Call of the Land

Chapters from the Memory of Captive Palestine

China

A Geography of Spirit and Urbanism

In Preparation for Publication

Initiatives

Papers & Letters

12 itemsLetters and papers on public, educational and professional matters

Reflections & Quotations

These are but a few of the gems that have caught my attention along the paths of thought.Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.

Windows

Selections from YouTubeCurated videos across four themes

Architecture

14 worksSelections from the marvels of world architecture — enduring projects that marked turning points in the history of architecture, and others that revealed, through their singularity, new possibilities for the field. They are presented here without regard to chronological order or hierarchy of importance.

Photography

These are some of the images captured by my lens, the third eye, in travel and in stillness alike; scenes of nature, of the marvels humankind has built, and of creatures that have crossed my sight.