Samia Henni

Samia Henni is a writer, historian, theorist, teacher, and curator. She is a professor of architecture working at Cornell University.[1][2][3] In her work, she is focused on the intersection of architecture, spatial planning, colonial practices, and military operations from the early 19th century up to the present days.[4]

Sami Henni also has curated many exhibitions, including Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria at the gta Institute, ETH Zurich; The New Institute in Rotterdam; Archive Kabinett in Berlin; the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, and La Colonie in Paris. She studied at the École polytechnique d'architecture et d'urbanisme in Algiers; Accademia di Architettura, Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio; The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam; and at Goldsmiths, University of London and has received her PhD from ETH Zurich[5] and after that has before going to Cornell has taught in many universities such as Geneva University of Art and Design, Princeton University, and ETH Zurich.[4][6]

Samia Henni is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (EN, gta Verlag, 2017; FR, Edition B42, 2019), in which she examined French colonial territorial transformations and spatial counterinsurgency measures in Algeria under colonial rule, especially during the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962).[7][8]