Sandi Hilal was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. She is an architect and researcher in trans-border policies of daily life at the University of Trieste, also
 working with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.

Alessandro Petti is a research architect based in Bethlehem and is co-director of the Centre for Architecture Media and Politics at the Bard/Al-Quds University in Abu Dis-Jerusalem.

The Decolonizing Architecture Institute (DAi) was founded by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman in 2007.

Recent Submissions

  • Book of Returns image gallery 

    Petti, Alessandro; Hilal, Sandi (12 November 2010)
  • Decolonizing Architecture PowerPoint Presentation 

    Petti, Alessandro; Hilal, Sandi (10 November 2010)
    Decolonizing Architecture deals with a fundamental question: how Israeli colonies and military bases – the architecture of Israel’s colonization – could be reused, recycled or re-inhabited by Palestinians, at the moment ...
  • Decolonizing Architecture 

    Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro (8 November 2010)
    Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman founded an architectural collective in Bethlehem. Decolonizing Architecture is a master plan that explores the problems and potentiality associated with the reuse of Israeli ...
  • Book of Returns (Copy 2/3) 

    Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro (8 November 2010)