Book
[Manuscript under preparation] Palm Politics: Warfare, Folklore, and Architecture
PhD Dissertation
Palm Politics: Warfare, Folklore, and Architecture
Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2021
Committee: Dana Cuff (chair), Sylvia Lavin, Michael Osman, Ananya Roy
Peer Reviewed Articles
[Forthcoming] Davis, Will. "Estuary and Ecofantasy." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.
Special issue edited by Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi and Maziyar Ghiabi, World Orders, Material Forms,
and Everyday Lives.
[Forthcoming] Davis, Will. "The Villa is a Plantation: Swiss Plantation Capitalism in Translation." Architecture Beyond Europe, Spaces of Imperial Transaction. Special issue, edited by Rixt Woudstra
and Michael Faciejew.
Davis, Will. “Seeds That Float,” Architectural Theory Review, Timber special issue, Irina Davidovici & Laila Seewang (eds.) Vol 25, No. 1, 2021: 1—11.
Davis, Will. “Prism of Difference: Bamboo, Bayanihan, and the Secret Society of ‘ñtcllg Kztzzstzzszllg Kztñpxllzll,’” Southeast of Now Vol. 5, October 2021: 119—32.
Davis, Will. “Leto’s Curse: Xanthos, Tomatoes and the Economy of Ancient Soil,” Thresholds 45: Myth. MIT Press. 2017: 40—50.
Articles
Davis, Will. “Foreign Arms and the Economic Body,” Canadian Centre for Architecture: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration, edited by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, August 2021.
Davis, Will. “Loneliness and Disappearance: Dorothy Pelzer, Imelda Marcos and the Category of Culture,” PLATFORM, www.platformspace.net, July 2020.
Davis, Will. “Civil Measures,” LA Forum for Architecture and Urbanism. 2017: 10—12.
Davis, Will and Ming Lin. “Shadow Play,” Scapegoat 9: Night. Toronto. 2017: 89—93.
Davis, Will. “Machines and the Province,” Camenzind #17: Der Provinz Lebt!. Zürich. 2016.
Davis, Will and Kenton Card; Christian Berkes. “Three Organizers Reflect on Dialogue,” The City and the Political Papers. Berlin: The Public School. 2012.
Davis, Will and Benedikt Boucsein. “Welcome to Foreign”, Camenzind 10: East Africa. Dar es Salaam, 2012.
Book Chapters
Davis, Will. “Ananya Roy” Entry for The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, eds. Lori A. Brown & Karen Burns, 2023.
Davis, Will. “From Homeless to Self-Built.” In Hong Kong’s Self-Built Communities. Edited by Louise Wong, Yanki Lee et al. Hong Kong Design Institute. 2017: 38—47.
Edited Volume
Davis, Will and Dana Cuff, eds. “Contingency,” ARDETH no. 6. Rosenberg & Sellier: Turin, June 2020.
Book Reviews
Davis, Will. “Tasting the Walls,” Architectural Histories. Review of Albert Narath, Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology and Earthen Architecture, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. Review published October 2024.
Davis, Will. "Imperial Malaise," Architecture Beyond Europe. Review of: The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe: Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960. Miel Groten. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Review published September 2024.
Other Writing
Davis, Will and Rachel Lee, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, “On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” November 14, 2022, http://we-aggregate.org/project/on-collaborationsfeminist-architectural-histories-of-migration. [video editing]
Davis, Will. “Visions in the Lunch Hour.” Dance Journal/HK, 22-1 Issue, February 2020.
Davis, Will and Ming Lin. “Water Goods,” Art Papers 41.06, Atlanta, 2018: 71—74.
Davis, Will. “On Habit.” In Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 12: Metafluxus. Edited by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes. São Paulo: Edições Sesc, 2017.
Invited Talks
Palm Politics, hosted by Dr. Brian Norwood, University of Austin Texas, September 2024
Palm Politics, hosted by Dr. Alex Seo, The University of Melbourne, August 2024
Cryptic Letter at Dawn, Amsterdam Centre for Urban History, University of Amsterdam, May 2024
Estuary and Ecofantasy, Alfredo F. Tadiar Library, San Fernando, La Union, The Philippines, May 2023
Pipe, Plantation, Patumbah, Hong Kong University, May 2023
Palm Politics, or, a genealogy of architectural arecaceae, Hong Kong University, May 2023
Foreign Arms and the Economic Body, Hong Kong University, April 2023
Palm Politics:Warfare, Folklore, and Architecture, SAH Brownlee Dissertation Award, Roundtable talk with Jason Nguyen and Katarina Bong, Society of Architectural Historians 75th Annual Conference, May 2022
Conference Activity
"Wars on the outside, wars on the inside" EAHN session organized with Dr. Alex Seo, June 2024
“Pipe, Plantation, Patumbah” Imperial Transactions Panel, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 2023
“The Smallest Rocks and Rivers” roundtable with Kelema Lee Moses, Urban Humanities Network Global (Un)Conference, Tucson, Arizona, March 2023
“Weaving Women and Plant Tidalectics” Diasporas and Futurities Panel, Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Jan 2023
April 2021 “Prism of Difference: Nipa Palm and the Imagination of Resistance” Society of Architectural Historians 74th Annual Conference, Montreal
Dec. 2019 “Faith by 1978: Architecture, Advocacy and Displacement in Mindanao” Urban Tropicality, 7th International Network of Tropical Architecture Conference, University of Queensland
Nov. 2018 “Invisible Measure: Science and Spirituality in the Cagayan Valley” After Effects: Architectural Histories of the Present, UC Berkeley
April 2018 “Foreign Arms and the Economic Body: Settler Militarism in the Philippines” Society of Architectural Historians 71st Annual Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota