Chapter Four, “An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement,” presents a history of the planning and settlement of Ifo, Dagaheley, and Hagadera camps, moving through a carefully constructed archive and adopting the historical convention of periodization to assemble a history of the Dadaab refugee camps from 1991 to 2011. These twenty years represent the time during which official archives of the Dadaab refugee camps remained classified and inaccessible to the public, during which the growth, structure, and architecture of the settlements formed the primary historical record. This chapter begins with foreign architects—that is, professionals trained in spatial planning and aesthetics, rather than civil engineering—who worked in Dadaab during the earliest phases of relief operations. It ends with Dadaab's architects, in a photo essay on Ifo camp's food and water distribution, the primary function and infrastructure of any refugee camp, which operates as an archive of humanitarian settlement.