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 (gta Verlag 2017, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), which received the 2020 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians; the editor of Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022) and War Zones (gta Verlag, 2018). She is also the maker of exhibitions, such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–22).
Samia Henni
laboratory speaker
On Performing Colonial Toxicity
RECOMMENDED LINKS
Samia Henni (ed.), Deserts Are Not Empty. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022
Samia Henni, "Jerboasite: Naming French Radioactive Matter in the Sahara" e-flux Architecture: Half-Life, edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Himali Singh Soin, Irene Sunwoo (December 2022)
Samia Henni, "Terra Nucleus: Radiating Desert Lives." The Funambulist: The Desert, no. 44 (Nov-Dec 2022): 60-67
"Nuclear Powers: France’s Atomic Bomb Tests in the Algerian Sahara" The Architectural Review (23 June 2022)
Samia Henni, "Oil, Gas, Dust: From the Sahara to Europe" e-flux Architecture: Coloniality of Infrastructure, edited by Nick Axel, Kenny Cupers, Nikolaus Hirsch (October 2021)
Samia Henni (ed.), Deserts Are Not Empty. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022
Samia Henni, "Jerboasite: Naming French Radioactive Matter in the Sahara" e-flux Architecture: Half-Life, edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Himali Singh Soin, Irene Sunwoo (December 2022)
Samia Henni, "Terra Nucleus: Radiating Desert Lives." The Funambulist: The Desert, no. 44 (Nov-Dec 2022): 60-67
"Nuclear Powers: France’s Atomic Bomb Tests in the Algerian Sahara" The Architectural Review (23 June 2022)
Samia Henni, "Oil, Gas, Dust: From the Sahara to Europe" e-flux Architecture: Coloniality of Infrastructure, edited by Nick Axel, Kenny Cupers, Nikolaus Hirsch (October 2021)
