Olga Touloumi Wins Fellowships from Canadian Centre for Architecture and MacDowell
Associate Professor of Architectural History Olga Touloumi.
Associate Professor of Architectural History Olga Touloumi has been awarded two fellowships to support her research on architecture and feminism in the modern day. She was awarded a 2025 Research Fellowship from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). She has also won an architecture fellowship for the MacDowell's Residency Program for Spring and Summer 2025. During her residency, Olga will focus on the life and works of Christine Benglia-Bevington, an Afro-French architect, professor, and crocheter. She will also study the papers of three female architects and contemporaries of Benglia-Bevington: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, and Eva Hollo Vecsei.
Touloumi has taught architecture at Bard since 2014 and researches how politics and space impact social structures. These fellowships will enable her to complete research to support her new project Building Worlds: A Feminist Counter-Biography of Modern Architecture. Her time at CCA will conclude a year of research into North American and French archives, forming the foundation for unpacking the other histories of modern architecture hidden within institutional and personal archives.
Post Date: 04-08-2025
Touloumi has taught architecture at Bard since 2014 and researches how politics and space impact social structures. These fellowships will enable her to complete research to support her new project Building Worlds: A Feminist Counter-Biography of Modern Architecture. Her time at CCA will conclude a year of research into North American and French archives, forming the foundation for unpacking the other histories of modern architecture hidden within institutional and personal archives.
Post Date: 04-08-2025