Author Archives: Samia Henni

Nuclear powers: France’s atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara

By Samia Henni 23 June 2022 Essays

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Nuclear bomb tests carried out by the French colonial regime in the 1960s caused irreversible contamination of the Algerian Sahara’s landscapes and lives

Revisit: Climat de France in Algiers by Fernand Pouillon

21 April 2022 By Brittany Utting and Daniel Jacobs

Fernand Pouillon’s most ambitious housing estate for Algiers remains an important staging…

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French connection: after the Pritzker winners

9 June 2022 By Andrew Ayers

A heterogeneous profession, characterised by a healthy culture of smaller practices, struggles…

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Decolonising Martinique: acts of resistance in France’s overseas territories

16 June 2022 By Françoise Vergès

Legacies of colonialism, sedimented in the monuments of France’s overseas territories, are…

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La Friche la Belle de Mai extension in Marseille, France by Kristell Filotico and Atelier Roberta

20 June 2022 By John Bingham-Hall

Kristell Filotico and Atelier Roberta’s addition to La Friche in Marseille throws…

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Retrospective: Patrick Bouchain

21 June 2022 By Jean-Philippe Hugron

Patrick Bouchain’s uniquely embedded approach has left a deep impact on French…

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