Peer Reviewed
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.
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.
Conference Activity
June 2024 "Wars on the outside, wars on the inside" EAHN session organized with Dr. Alex Seo
May 2023 "Estuary and Ecofantasy" Alfredo F. Tadiar Library, San Fernando, La Union, The Philippines [invited talk]
May 2023 “Pipe, Plantation, Patumbah” Hong Kong University [invited talk]
May 2023 “Palm Politics, or, a genealogy of architectural arecaceae” Hong Kong University [invited talk]
April 2023 “Foreign Arms and the Economic Body” Hong Kong University [invited talk]
April 2023 “Pipe, Plantation, Patumbah” Imperial Transactions Panel, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
March 2023 “The Smallest Rocks and Rivers” roundtable with Kelema Lee Moses, Urban Humanities Network Global (Un)Conference, Tucson, Arizona
Jan 2023 “Weaving Women and Plant Tidalectics” Diasporas and Futurities Panel, Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
May 2022 “Palm Politics” David B. Brownlee Dissertation Award Roundtable Event with Jason Nguyen and Katerina Bong, Society of Architectural Historians 75th Annual Conference
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