16 October 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lecture at annual sculpture symposium: Red threads, loose ends, another sculpture IS possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samia Henni<\/strong> is a historian and an exhibition maker of the built, destroyed and imagined environments and their relationship with the practices of colonization, war,\u00a0and environmental contamination. Her most recent research has culminated in the exhibitions\u00a0Psychocolonial Spaces<\/em>\u00a0(2025\u2013; Bolzano),\u00a0Performing Colonial Toxicity<\/em>\u00a0(2023\u2013; Amsterdam, Zurich, London, Providence, Paris, Berlin, Ottawa),\u00a0Housing Pharmacology<\/em>\u00a0(2020\u201321; Marseille, Paris),\u00a0Discreet Violence:<\/em>\u00a0Architecture and the French War in Algeria<\/em>\u00a0(2017\u20132022; Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca and Philadelphia), as well as in the books\u00a0Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara<\/em>\u00a0(EN, 2024, 2025; FR, 2025), and\u00a0Architecture of Counterrevolution:<\/em>\u00a0The French Army in Northern Algeria<\/em>\u00a0(EN, 2017, 2022; FR, 2019); and the volumes\u00a0Deserts Are Not Empty<\/em>\u00a0(EN, 2022, 2025; IT, 2024) and\u00a0War Zones<\/em>\u00a0(2018) of which she was the editor. 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, Geneva University of Art and Design, The University of Zurich, and Cornell University. Currently, she teaches at McGill University\u2019s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samia Henni Colonial Toxicity 16 October 2025 Lecture at annual sculpture symposium: Red threads, loose ends, another sculpture IS possible Samia Henni is a historian and an exhibition maker of the built, destroyed and imagined environments and their relationship with the practices of colonization, war,\u00a0and environmental contamination. Her most recent research has culminated in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}