Samia Henni

Samia Henni teaches at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal and co-chairs the University Seminar “Beyond France” at Columbia University.

Henni is the author of Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag 2017, 2022, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), which received the 2020 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (If I Can’t Dance, Framer Framed, edition fink, 2024). She is the editor of Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia, 2022) and War Zones (gta Verlag, 2018). She is also a maker of exhibitions, including Performing Colonial Toxicity (Framer Framed, If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam; gta Exhibitions, Zurich; The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2023–04); Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–22); Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021); and Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020).