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Kian Hosseinnia

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Kian Hosseinnia is a Doctoral Student in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. His work examines the entanglements between architectural modernity and archaeo-anthropological thought in the American Southwest. He is particularly interested in how Anglo encounters with Indigenous peoples in the conquered territory of New Mexico fostered anti-modern sentiments and alternative Americanisms. These were grounded in visions of adapting to a foreign continent through reproducing Indigenous technical life. Alongside his historical engagement with archaeology, Kian is actively involved in ongoing excavations in New Mexico.

Kian received a B.A. in Architectural Studies and Philosophy from the University of Toronto and an M.Arch. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. His master’s thesis, “Translations from Pictogram to Building: A Media Account of a Sumerian Construction,” explored the conceptual limits of nineteenth-century archaeological thought and Assyriological philology in capturing the complex building world of third-millennium BCE Mesopotamia.