Samia Henni

Title

Samia Henni

Rights

Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Andrea Avezzù, courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, 2023.

Birth Date

1980

Birthplace

Algeria

Primary Sources

Henni, S. (2023). Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara. Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance, Fink, Zürich and Framer Framed, ISBN: 978-94-92139-24-5

Henni, S. (2022). Experience’ Rather Than ‘Project:’ Deluz Pedagogy in Post-revolutionary Algiers. In Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galan, Evangelos Kotsiori & Anna-Maria Meister (eds.), Radical Pedagogies. MIT Press.

Henni, S. (2022). The Pedagogy of Naming. Journal of Architectural Education, 76(2), 193. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2022.2097546

Henni, S. (2021). Desertcide: ‘Oil Lakes’ as Archival Violence. In Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel Al Yaqoub, Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, & Yousef Awaad (eds.), Space/War. JOVIS Verlag.

Henni, S. (2021). Exhibition as a Form of Writing On “Discreet Violence: Architecture of the French War in Algeria”. PARSE Journal, (13.1). https://parsejournal.com/article/exhibition-as-a-form-of-writing/

Henni, S. (2021). Forbidding Homelessness: The State and the First Lockdown in Marseille. In Daniel Talesnik and Andres Lepik (eds.), Who’s Next? We Need to Talk About Homelessness, 76-81. ArchiTangle.

Henni, S. (2020). Anticolonial Remedies: From Colonization to Globalization. Perspecta, 53. Yale Architectural Journal.

Henni, S. (2019). Boumedienne, Niemeyer: When Militarism Meets Modernism. Preface to Jason Oddy (Ed.), The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria. Columbia University Books https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-revolution-will-be-stopped-halfway/9781941332504

Henni, S. (2019). Female Agency and Psychological Warfare: French Colonial Civil and Military Interventions in Algeria, 1954–1962. In Kockelkorn, A., & Zschocke, N. (Eds.), Productive Universals–Specific Situations. Clinical Engagements in Art, Architecture, Design and Urbanism. Sternberg Press.

Henni, S., (2018) Architecture of Counterrevolution:  The French Army in Northern Algeria. ETH Zurich: gta Publishers. ISBN 978-3-85676-376-3  https://archive.arch.ethz.ch/verlag/ publications/architecture-of-counterrevolution-the-french-army-in-northern-algeria.html

Henni, S. (ed.) (2018). War Zones gta Papers. gta Verlag. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_978-3-85676-390-9

Secondary Sources

Bhoot, M. (January 5, 2024). Historian and curator Samia Henni on staging acts of 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. Stir World. Accessed 6 Nov., 2024 https://www.stirworld.com/inspire-conversations-historian-and-curator-samia-henni-on-staging-acts-of-performing-colonial-toxicity 

López Munuera, I. (2023). Deserts are not empty, edited by Samia Henni. Journal of Architecture, 4(28), 691–693. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2023.2258032

Extra Resources

Samia Henni. Personal Website.nd https://www.samiahenni.com/index.html

Exhibition: Performing Colonial Toxicity (8-14 January, 2024. Framer Framed. Exhibition. https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-performing-colonial-toxicity/

Samia Henni on the enduring remnants of nuclear colonialism (January 5, 2024). STIR. Youtube. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://youtu.be/ipkjkai1X24.

Performing Colonial Toxicity: Megan Hoetger in conversation with Samia Henni (December 1, 2023). Framer Framed. Youtube. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://youtu.be/gkWY_qsQsOY

Henni, S. (October 2021). Oil, Gas, Dust: From the Sahara to Europe. e-flux Architecture. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/coloniality-infrastructure/410034/oil-gas-dust-from-the-sahara-to-europe/

Manifesta 13 Marseille (August 28 - November 29, 2020). Samia Henni. Manifesta 13 Marseille https://manifesta13.org/participants/samia-henni/index.html

03.29.19 Anti-Post-De-Colonialism Roundtable: Mario Gooden, Samia Henni, Mpho Matsipa, Anooradha... (April 3, 2020). The Cooper Union. Youtube. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://youtu.be/pNPJ0tsLrmU

Anticolonial Commitments - Samia Henni (November 30, 2019). AA School of Architecture. Youtube. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://youtu.be/Dbnx6hdi6hs

Collection

Citation

“Samia Henni,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/706.

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