Notice Board

Architecture & Design NOW series
Featuring Samia Henni
March 24 | 6 p.m. | Room L1060
Free admission, everyone welcome

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). She was Albert Hirschman Chair (2020-21) at the Institute of Advanced Study in Marseille, and a Geddes Fellow (2021) at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Samia is a member of various boards, including the Board of Directors at the Society of Architectural Historians and the Academic Board of the African Futures Institute. She received her PhD in the history and theory of architecture (with distinction, ETH Medal) from ETH Zurich and has taught at Princeton University, ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, Geneva University of Art and Design, and Cornell University. In the fall of 2024, Samia joined the faculty of McGill University’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.

Book cover images courtesy of the speaker.