Samia Henni Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University

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1 Samia Henni Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University Born in Algiers, Algeria. She is an architect and an architectural historian and theorist who works at the intersection of architecture, planning, colonial practices, and military operations from the early 19th century up to the present days. Her book Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2017) examines French colonial territorial transformations and spatial counterinsurgency measures in Algeria under colonial rule during the Algerian Revolution ( ). The book discusses the complicity of architecture and planning in strategies of offense, defense, control, and surveillance. She is the curator of Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria at the gta Institute, ETH Zurich, an exhibition that utilized French propaganda visual records and archival documents to feature the processes through which the French colonial military authorities forcibly relocated thousands of Algerians in Algeria's rural areas during the Algerian Revolution. She is also the co-curator of gta Films at the gta Institute, an exhibition that dissects the production and use of motion picture as a way of documenting, teaching, promoting, and understanding architecture. Henni is the editor of the second issue of gta papers entitled Architecture/ Wars (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2018), in which she examined the design of the militarization of cities since World War II, and specifically after the events of September 11, She also writes about the effects of colonialism on planning and housing development ( Black Color and 'Negro Village:' Why Skin Color Still Matters in Architecture? Trans Magazin, 30), on population resettlements ( On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne, Footprint, 19), on women's lives ( How to Frenchify Algerian Women: On Domestic Spaces and Women's Agency during the French War in Algeria, forthcoming book chapter in Productive Universals, Specific Situations: Analysis and Intervention in Art, Architecture, Design and Urbanism. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018), and on language ( What the Hell Do They Mean When They Say 'Independence'? written and read for Barby Asante, broadcasted at the Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial. Her recent lectures include Architecture of Counterrevolution at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; From Counterrevolution to Counterinsurgency at the Copper Union; Designing for the "milieu féminin": France's Attempts to Keep Algerian Women Away from Islamic Customs at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Vers une dé-propagande des archives militaires: mais ou se trouve donc l'architecture? at the Laboratoire InVisu, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris; On Critical Institutions in Society, Shedhalle Zurich; From Camps, Homes, Borders, and Laws, The Side Room, Amsterdam; C as in Colonialism, CCC Research-based Master program, Geneva School of Art and Design. Her research has been included in exhibitions at Kunsthal Aarhus, Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and the Chung- Shan Creative Hub in Taipei. She taught at Princeton University's School of Architecture, the ETH Zurich and the Geneva University of Art and Design. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction, ETH Medal) in History and Theory of Architecture from the ETH Zurich. She was a Research Associate at Curatorial/Knowledge, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. She received her M.Sc. in Architecture from the Accademia di Archittetura di Mendrisio, Universita della Svizzera Italiana. She also studied at the former Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and at the Ecole polytechnique d'architecture et d'urbanisme in Algiers. Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

2 EDUCATION Ph.D. (with distinction, ETH Medal) in History and Theory of Architecture, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Associate Ph.D. Fellow in Visual Cultures, Curatorial/Knowledge PhD Programme, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom Master in Research and Development in Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Urbanism, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Diploma in Architecture, Academy of Architecture, Swiss Italian University, Mendrisio, Switzerland Ecole Polytechnique d Architecture et d Urbanisme, Algiers, Algeria. TEACHING POSITIONS July 2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University Lecturer, School of Architecture, Princeton University Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Lecturer, Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland Visiting Tutor, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, the Netherlands Visiting Tutor, Architectural Association, London, Visiting School Mittelmeerland, Algiers, Algeria Visiting Lecturer, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Visiting Lecturer, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, the Netherlands. AWARDS AND GRANTS 2018 Book finalist, Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria, Festival International du Livre d'art et du Film ETH Medal, outstanding doctoral dissertation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Best conference poster and presentation, 3rd Swiss Congress of Art History, biennial conference of the Association of Swiss Art Historians, University of Basel, Switzerland Short Term Scientific Mission, European Research Programme, European architecture beyond Europe: Sharing Research and Knowledge on Dissemination Processes, Historical Data and Material Legacy (19-20 C.). th th 2010 Berlage Institute Scholarship, Rotterdam, the Netherlands First prize, Souls City, Losone, Switzerland Third prize, Regional Community Centre, Locarno, Switzerland Soroptimist Women`s Opportunity Awards, Mendrisio, Switzerland Amici dell'accademia Scholarship, Mendrisio, Switzerland. Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

3 PUBLICATIONS Book Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria. Zurich: gta Verlag, Edited Volume Architecture / Wars. gta papers, no. 2 (November 2018). With contributions by Nora Akawi, Silvia Berger, Jean-Louis Cohen, Ismail Cheikh Hassan, Samia Henni, Léopold Lambert, Khaled Malas, Asja Mandic, Eva Schreiner, Felicity D. Scott, Stanislav von Moos, Alfredo Thiermann, and Daniel Weiss. Articles (Selected) Female Agency and the French War in Algeria: Colonial Civil and Military Interventions. In Productive Universals Specific Situations. Analysis and Intervention in Art, Architecture, Design and Urbanism, eds. Anne Kockelkorn and Nina Zschocke. Berlin: Sternberg Press, Urban Warfare in French Colonial Rule: From Algiers to Paris. Perspecta 52 Empire, Yale Architectural Journal (2019). Norms and Forms of Dispossession: The Politics of Naming Pidgin 23, Princeton University School of Architecture Journal (February 2018). Reflections on the Authority of Architecture, Or a Brief and Unfinished Cartography of Disciplinary Spaces. In A Wall is Just a Wall edited by Kapwani Kiwanga and Carolin Kochling (February 2018). From Indigenous to Muslim: On the French Colonial Assimilationist Doctrine. E-Flux Architecture (December 11, 2017). [Electronic] Toxic Imprints of Bleu, Blanc, Rouge: France s Nuclear Bombs in the Algerian Sahara. The Funambulist: Toxic Atmospheres, no. 14 (November December 2017): Black Color and Negro Village: Why Skin Color Still Matters in Architecture? Trans Magazin: Farbe, no. 30 (Spring 2017): On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne: The French Army in Northern Algeria ( ). Footprint: Spaces of Conflict, eds. Malkit Shoshan and Marc Schoonderbeek, Delft Architecture Theory Journal, no. 19 (Autumn 2016): < Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Algeria, ABE Journal, Architecture Beyond Europe: Dynamic Vernacular, ed. Mark Crinson, no (2016). [electronic] < Pourquoi l Algérie n'ira pas à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise. El Watan, 28 February 2014, [French] Master Plan for the Mzab Valley. In Backstage Architecture, eds. Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, Bernardina Borra, Nicolò Lewanski, Rosella Longavita, and Federica Russo. Lulu.com Publishers, 2012, Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

4 E-waste, Garbage, Restorative Environments. In Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, eds. Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2012, Ask the Experts, Interviews with Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner; Lieven de Cauter; Kevin Y. C. Chang; Winy Maas; Peter Trummer; Yen-Fen Tseng and Jaap Wiedenhoff. In The Vertical Village, eds. MVRDV and The?Factory. Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2011, Potencialidades Exploradas, Narrating Paraisopolis, au, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Brazilian Magazine of Architecture, November 2010, n. 200, pp [Portuguese] LECTURES The Authority of Architecture, African Studies Center, Boston University, April 23, Warzone: Planning and Building Against the Revolution. Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, April 19, 2018 From Counterrevolution to Counterinsurgency. The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, April 2, Spatial Consequences: The Roots and Ramifications of Colonial Rule. In Structural Instability: History, Environment, and Risk in Architecture. Department of Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, April 5-7, 2018 Designing for the milieu féminin: France s Attempts to Keep Algerian Women Away from Islamic Customs. Aga Khan Lecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Boston, March 9, Architecture of Counterrevolution. The New Institute, Rotterdam, December 21, Discreet Violence or Architecture of Counterrevolution. The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, December 20, How to Work with Propaganda Photographs? Architecture and the French Army in Algeria. Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana, April 25, Vers une dé-propagande des archives militaires: mais où se trouve donc l'architecture? Laboratoire InVisu, CNRS, Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), Paris, March 21, [French] From Camps, Homes, Borders, and Laws. Sorry We re Open (a week-long program that unravels histories, stories and memories of migration and social exclusion in the Schinkelbuurt and Hoofddorppleinbuurt neighborhood in Amsterdam South) organized by the Sideroom at the Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam, September 23, Why Does Algeria Need a Pavilion More Than Ever? On Retelling Stories, Rewriting Histories and Researching Architecture. Something to Generate From curated by Madrassa Collective, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, June 17, C as in Colonialism. CCC Research-based Master programme, Geneva University of Art and Design, HEAD Geneva, Switzerland, October 10, From Camps, Homes, Borders to Laws, the Side Room, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 23, Colonial Architecture in North Africa, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, March 4, Migration and Housing in Postwar France, Chair of Prof. Günter Vogt, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 4, Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

5 Press Architecture: Unclassified Buildings in Algeria ( ), The Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom, June 26, On the Spatial Order of Military Laws: The Case of the French Army in Algeria, Chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Tönnesmann, gta, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 8, The Imaginary Algiers, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, MArch in Urban Design, London, United Kingdom, April 15, L école d Alger: French Colonial Architecture and Planning in Algiers, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, November 1-2, Footnotes on Platitudes, Perception, Memory and the City, Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, the Netherlands, November 23-26, Plans and Platitudes, Experimenting with the two-dimensional in Architecture and Urbanism, Prof. Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS Camps Are Not Centers: French Military Displacements in Colonized Algeria. In Architectures of Migration, Techniques of Citizenry Panel chaired by María González Pendás (Columbia University), Council for European Studies Annual Conference, Chicago DC, March 29 30, France s Trans-Mediterranean Oppressions: Migration, Death and Architecture. In Crossing the Mediterranean: Migration, Death and Culture Panel, Cornell Institute for European Studies Migration series, February 27, Camps de Regroupement: French Military Forced Displacements in Algeria, , Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Session Spaces of Displacement? Chaired by Irit Katz and Felipe Hernandez, University of Strathclyde, Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, June 7-11, French Planning Bureaucrats in Algeria. De Gaulle's Mass Housing Regulations, Session: A Question of Shared Culture or of (Selective) Borrowing(s)? 20th Century Colonial Public Works Departments seen from a Transnational Perspective chaired by Johan Lagae and Ana Vaz Milheiro, respondent: Professor Peter Carleton Scriver. Fourth International Meeting, European Architectural History Network, Dublin, Ireland, June 2-4, From Habitat Musulman to de Gaulle's Cells in French Algeria. Session: Post-war Architecture and African Legacy: Which Tradition? chaired by Elisa Dainese, Annual International Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 6-10, Does Culture Enable National Reconciliation? Algerian Post-Civil War Creative Economy. Session: Designing African creative cities chaired by Jenny Fatou Mbaye, respondent: Edgar Pieterse. Fifth European Conference on African Studies: African dynamics in a multipolar world, Center of African Studies - ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

6 CHAIRED CONFERENCE SESSIONS Colonial Spatiality in African Sahara Regions chaired by Samia Henni, International Congress, Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures, Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, January 16-18, United Nations in the Non-Western World: Norms and Forms of 'Development' Programmes chaired with Tom Avermaete (TU Delft), Fifth International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network, Tallinn, June 13 16, French North Africa and the Architecture of Counterinsurgency chaired with Ralph Ghoche (Columbia University), College Art Association (CCA) 106th Annual Conference, Los Angeles Convention Center, February 21 24, ORGANIZED CONFERENCE AND ROUNDTABLES States of Emergency, roundtable with Samia Henni, Léopold Lambert, Hassina Mechaï et Sihem Zine, La Colonie, Paris, 19 June < Architecture and Wars: Forms of Constructions and Destructions in War Zones, International Conference, gta Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2 3 June < Colonial Switzerland: Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins, Roundtable with Harald Tiné- Fischer and graduate students, gta Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 1, Black Urbanism, Roundtable with Abdoumaliq Simone and graduate students, gta Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, November 10, On Methodology with Stephan Nowotny, Irit Rogoff, Philip Ursprung, and doctoral students, gta Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, June 12 14, Resituating Knowledge Production and Reproduction with Eyal Weizman, Lieven De Cauter and doctoral students, gta Institute, ETH Zurich, May 27 28, BOOK PRESENTATION AND PANEL Festival International du Livre d Art et du Film, Perpignan, June 21, La Colonie, Paris, June 19, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, April 17, Boston University, April 23, Princeton University School of Architecture, book panel with professors Felicity D. Scott, Reena N. Goldthree, and Philip G. Nord, March 6, The New Institute, Rotterdam, December 21, The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, December 20, 2017 Archive Kabinett, Berlin, December 19, ETH Zurich, December 18, Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

7 RESPONDENT/ REVIEWER Final Thesis Reviews, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, May 12, Harvard GSD Thesis Reviews, University of Harvard, Boston, January 18 19, Thesis reviews, design studio by Eva Franch i Gilabert and Igor Bragado, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, December 12, Senior design studio taught by Annie Barrett, School of Architecture, Princeton University, November 8, Planning Chandigarh, respondent to Maristella Casciato, organized by gta Archives and moderated by Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, Centre Le Corbusier, Zurich, Switzerland, September 30, Tensions. Respondent to Azra Aksamija Museum Solidarity: The Art of State and Sergio Araya Living Architecture. Microperformances of BioFabrication. In Utopia s Return? Borderlines, Agency and Transformation in Global Art and Architecture, International Conference of Art and Architecture History Assembly, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 3, Emerging and Sustainable Cities in Port-of-Spain. Design Studio taught by Profs. Alfredo Brillemburg and Hubert Klumpner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 29, Everyone Harvests in Hanoi. Design Studio taught by Profs. Alfredo Brillemburg and Hubert Klumpner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 30, Algiers Precipice of Change: A New DNA for the City. Design Studio taught by Beth Hughes and DaeWha Kang, MArch Urban Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, April 15, Einführung in die ethnographische Forschung der modernen Architektur, Research Studio by Dr. Sascha Roesler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 5, Plug in Sao Paulo, Design Studio by Profs. Alfredo Brillemburg and. Hubert Klumpner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 21, CONFERENCE POSTERS Architecture and Colonial Warfare: The Case of France in Algeria. 3 rd Swiss Congress of Art History, biennial conference of the Association of Swiss Art Historians, University of Basel, Switzerland, June 23-25, Annotations on the Code of El Houma, Un mot qui tient lieu aux Lieux. 5 th African Perspectives Conference: Dialogues on African Metropolis, Architecture School, Casablanca, Morocco, November 3-5, EXHIBITIONS Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria, curated by Samia Henni, gta Exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, April 12 June 3, 2017; The New Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, September 8, 2017 January 7, 2018; Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany, December 19, 2017 January 27, 2018; The Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, April 19 May 31, 2018; La Colonie, Paris, June 19 July 15, Algerian Pavilion: News from the Past Future in Something to Generate, curated by Madrassa Collective, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, June 17 August 17, Algeria 1961: The Paradigm of Counterinsurgency in Travelling Communiqué, curated by Armin Linke, Doreen Mende and Milica Tomic. Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia, October 6 August 17, Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June

8 Future Outdoors in Imperfect Health, the Medicalization of Architecture, curated by Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 25, 2011 April 1, The Vertical Village, Is it Feasible? Ask the Experts, Chung-Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan, October 10, 2011 January 1, Project Heracles: EurAfrican Bridge, Connecting Africa with Europe, The Gopher Hole, London, July 22 August 4, ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE Referee, Young Algerian Architects, Backstage Architecture, International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy Samia Henni Architecture Office, Ticino, Switzerland Architect at architects Aurelio Galfetti, Livio Vacchini, and Luigi Snozzi, Ticino, Switzerland Research Assistant, Prof. Luciano Fabro, Milan, Italy, for Eastern Docklands Art Public Work, Java Island, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Internship, Aurelio Galfetti Architecture Office, Lugano, Switzerland. LANGUAGES Native Excellent Good Algerian, Arabic and French. English and Italian. German and Spanish. Curriculum Vitae Samia Henni June