Samia Henni

Samia Henni is an architectural historian, educator, and exhibition maker of 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, 2022, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR) and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (If I Can’t Dance, Framer Framed, edition fink, 2024), as well as in the editor of War Zones, gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), and Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022). She created several exhibitions including Archives: Secret-Défense? ifa Gallery/SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2021), Housing Pharmacology, Manifesta 13, Marseilles, (2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, and Charlottesville, 2017–22). Currently, she teaches at McGill University’s School of Architecture and co-chairs Columbia University Seminar ‘Beyond France.’