Samia Henni
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I think I identify or I consider objects as carriers of histories. And I try to really understand the multiplicity of those histories through not only the aspects of those objects, but specifically through what is not visible on those objects.
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DESCRIPTION OF WORK
As of 2021, Henni is an assistant professor at the Cornell AAP school. Her research focuses on the history and theory of the built environment in relation to colonialism, displacement, gender, and the religion of Islam.
As of 2021, Henni is an assistant professor at the Cornell AAP school. Her research focuses on the history and theory of the built environment in relation to colonialism, displacement, gender, and the religion of Islam.
BORN
Contemporary
Contemporary
DESCENT
Algiers, Algeria
DISCIPLINE
Architectural Historian/Theoretician