Olga Touloumi

Olga Touloumi is an educator, feminist, and architectural historian teaching at Bard College. Her research concerns spatial politics, media, and gender in modern architecture. She is currently working on an intersectional experimental biography of architectural practice and pedagogy through the life and works of architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington. She is the co-founder of the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative, thinking and writing about storytelling, antiheroic positions in architecture, and informal archives. Her book Assembly by Design (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) examines the production of a new type of public space for international organizations, the global interior. Along with Sabine von Fischer she co-edited Sound Modernities (2018), a special issue of the Journal of Architecture on how acoustics and sound technologies transformed modern architectural culture during the twentieth century; and with Theodora Vardouli the edited volume Computer Architecture (Routledge, 2020) about the exchanges between designers and computational technologists in Europe and North America. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Theory Review, Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education and Harvard Design Magazine. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, and the Canadian Center for Architecture. Touloumi received her PhD from Harvard University and holds degrees in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.