Presentation
Marwa Dabaieh is an architect and BioGeometry® practitioner with a focus on sustainable and environmentally conscious architecture. She has been a licensed architect since 2001, specializing in zero-emission and passive earth buildings, sustainable architectural conservation, and climate-responsive design.
Marwa received my bachelor's degree in architecture from Egypt and later earned a master's degree in environmental design and planning. In 2011, She completed a PhD in vernacular architecture at Lund University in Sweden. Her research focuses on passive and carbon-neutral low-tech vernacular methods and their adaptation for contemporary zero-emission building practices. Her work often employs transdisciplinary approaches, utilizing human-centered participatory design methods.
In 2012, She was awarded the Swedish Elna Bengtssons Foundation Prize for Scientific Research for my PhD project. So far she published over 100 manuscripts and five books, and regularly lectures on vernacular architecture, sustainable and environmental design, energy-efficient buildings, zero-emission design, carbon-neutral architecture, sustainable conservation, building with natural materials, and BioGeometry®.
Driven by a vision to harmonize modern architecture with sustainable practices, Marwa participated in several design projects across Egypt, the MENA region, and Europe. As a practitioner, She contributed to shaping the future of sustainable architecture through her active involvement in professional organizations such as Architects Without Borders and ICOMOS, where she serve as vice president for the Scientific Committee for Vernacular Architecture (CIAV) and as an expert voting member for the Earthen Architecture Committee (ISCEAH) and the International Scientific Committee on Energy and Sustainability (ISCES).
In 2018, she was appointed a full professor of sustainable and environmental architecture at Aalborg University in Denmark, where also led the Sustainable Architecture Research Lab. Currently, she is a full professor of urban sustinability at Malmö University in Sweden, where she serves as the program director of the Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design program.
Currently also working on several ongoing projects such as the EU-funded 'Algoloam', the Crafoord-funded 'Z Free Home', and the FORMAS-funded project 'Neutral Positive Malmö'.
