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Samia Henni Read Bio Collapse
Samia Henni Read Bio Collapse
Samia Henni is a historian of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (EN, 2017; FR, 2019), the editor of Deserts Are Not Empty (2022) and War Zones: gta papers 2 (2018), and the maker of exhibitions such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (2021), Housing Pharmacology (2020), and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (2017–21). Currently, she is working on an exhibition project, Performing Colonial Toxicity, and a book project, Colonial Toxicity: The French Army in the Sahara, in which she examines France’s nuclear weapons program and atomic bomb infrastructure in the Algerian Sahara. She is a visiting professor of the Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich and assistant professor at Cornell AAP.
e-flux Events
Posted: March 25, 2024
Category
Architecture, War & Conflict, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Pollution & Toxicity, Nuclear War, Law & Justice, Environment
e-flux Architecture
Lecture by Samia Henni
Architecture Announcement
Posted: March 18, 2024
Category
Lecture, Architecture
Institution
e-flux Architecture
e-flux Architecture Lectures spring 2024 program
Architecture Announcement
Posted: January 27, 2024
Category
Architecture, Design, Lecture
Institution
Framer Framed
Samia Henni: Performing Colonial Toxicity
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 18, 2023
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Africa, Nuclear War
Institution
Positions
Reinhold Martin, Andreas Angelidakis, Keller Easterling, Ross Exo Adams, V. Mitch McEwen, Shannon Mattern, Douglas Spencer, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Alon Schwabe, Nicholas Korody, Samia Henni, Andrea Bagnato, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Mario Carpo, Alessandro Bava, Beatrice Galilee, Elvia Wilk, Victoria Bugge Øye, Godofredo Enes Pereira, Aristide Antonas, Thanos Zartaloudis, Adam Jasper, Michael Sorkin, David Adjaye, Paola Antonelli, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Sou Fujimoto, Juan Herreros, Giovanna Borasi, Stefano Boeri, Toyo Ito, Marina Otero Verzier, Iñaqui Carnicero, Lorena del Río, José Aragüez, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Sylvia Lavin, Charles Holland, feminist architecture collaborative, Dan Handel, Amelyn Ng, Andrés Jaque, Pedro Gadanho, Eva Hagberg, Julian Rose, Mimi Zeiger, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Lawrence Lek, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Justin Fowler, Manuel Herz, Emanuel Christ, Shahar Livne, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Tom Holert, Benjamin H. Bratton, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, The Alumni of N.A.W. 4, Calvin Po, Mahika Gautam, Alistair Napier, Sharon Lam, Derin Fadina, Antoinette Yetunde Oni, and Rhiarna Dhaliwal
Architecture Project
Posted: August 21, 2023
Category
Architecture, Interviews & Conversations, Design, Urbanism
Subjects
Knowledge Production, Discourse
Architecture Announcement
Posted: March 2, 2023
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Modernism
Subjects
Africa
Institution
Half-Life
Kate Brown, Talei Luscia Mangioni, Raqs Media Collective, Samia Henni, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Radiowaves Collective, Livia Krohn Miller, and Sabu Kohso
Architecture Project
Posted: December 22, 2022
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Architecture
Subjects
Nuclear War, Postcolonialism, Landscape, Protests & Demonstrations, Cold War
The Funambulist
Politics of space and bodies
Architecture Announcement
Posted: December 20, 2022
Institution
Half-Life
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 12, 2022
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Land & territory
Subjects
Nuclear War, Africa, Health & Disease
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fall 2022 public programs
Architecture Announcement
Posted: September 8, 2022
Subjects
Academia, Climate change, Wealth & Inequality
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
Edition IX—Bodies and Technologies (2022–23)
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 14, 2022
Category
Bodies, Technology
Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
CCC research-based master of the Visual Arts Department
e-flux Education
Posted: March 10, 2022
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture spring 2022 public programs
Architecture Announcement
Posted: February 3, 2022
CIVA
Institution Building
Architecture Announcement
Posted: November 6, 2021
Category
Museums, Architecture, Design
Institution
PARSE Journal at the University of Gothenburg
Violence: fourth PARSE Biennial Research Conference 2021
e-flux Education
Posted: November 3, 2021
Architekturmuseum der TUM
Who’s Next?
Architecture Announcement
Posted: October 22, 2021
Category
Urbanism
Subjects
Housing & Real Estate
Institution
Coloniality of Infrastructure
Kenny Cupers, Zandi Sherman, Sophie Toupin, Emilio Distretti, Sarah Nuttall, Huda Tayob, Samia Henni, Megan Eardley, Irene Peano, and Achille Mbembe
Architecture Project
Posted: October 8, 2021
Category
Architecture, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Infrastructure, Africa, Racism, Extractivism, Postcolonialism
Coloniality of Infrastructure
Oil, Gas, Dust: From the Sahara to Europe
Samia Henni
Architecture Essay
Posted: October 1, 2021
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Land & territory
Subjects
Africa, Extractivism, Pollution & Toxicity, Dispossession
Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Space Wars
Architecture Announcement
Posted: August 25, 2021
Category
Land & territory
Subjects
Gulf War, Middle East
Institution
CIVA
Institution Building
Architecture Announcement
Posted: August 23, 2021
Category
Museums
Subjects
Institutional Critique
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 18, 2021
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Decolonization, Institutional Critique, Europe
Institution
African Futures Institute
A new school of architecture headquartered in Accra, Ghana
Architecture Announcement
Posted: June 11, 2021
Category
Education
Subjects
Africa
Institution
UNIL Lausanne
“Unearthing Traces”
Architecture Announcement
Posted: April 19, 2021
Subjects
Decolonization, Libraries & Archives
Institution
Confinement
David Adjaye, Design Earth, Ilze Wolff, Anonymous, Lydia Xynogala, Catherine Malabou, Traumnovelle, Itsuko Hasegawa, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck, Eyal Weizman, sub, Celeste Burlina, Dogma, Léopold Lambert, Roanne Moodley, Samia Henni, 2A+P/A, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Pedro Pitarch, Manuel Gnam, Space Popular, Inside Outside, Jack Self, MAIO, MILLIØNS, Philippe Rahm, Andres L. Hernandez, Alberto Lule, Savannah Ramirez, Rosie Rios, Nathaniel Whitfield, Michel Kessler, Sumayya Vally, Aristide Antonas, Alessandro Bava, Lydia Ourahmane, and Armature Globale
Architecture Project
Posted: April 9, 2021
Category
Bodies, Drawing, Architecture
Subjects
Covid-19, Police & Prisons, Everyday Life
Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
Call for applications: CCC Master Program in Visual Arts
e-flux Education
Posted: February 25, 2021
Confinement
Unhoused
Samia Henni
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 5, 2020
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Subjects
Covid-19, Housing & Real Estate, Health & Disease, Class
e-flux Education
Posted: April 20, 2020
Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
Call for applications: CCC Research Practices, Master and PhD-Forum in Visual Arts
e-flux Education
Posted: February 14, 2020
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
Kader Attia
e-flux Education
Posted: September 20, 2019
Category
Lecture
Valais School of Art (EDHEA)
Call for applications: Master of Arts in Public Spheres (MAPS) (édhéa)
e-flux Education
Posted: March 22, 2019