Olga Touloumi is an architect, teacher, and historian of the built environment. She is currently researching informal archives, feminist methodologies, and the stories we can tell through one’s life.
Touloumi has been experimenting in collaborative writing with the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC). Her academic work includes Assembly by Design
(University of Minnesota Press, 2024); the co-edited volume Computer Architectures (Routledge, 2020); and the co-edited special issue Sound Modernities (Journal of Architecture, 2018). Her writing has appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Theory Review, and Harvard Design Magazine, among others. She teaches at Bard College.
At MacDowell she worked on an intersectional feminist minor history of Afro-French architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington. She likes to think of her project as a biography of a position in the field. She drafted a chapter on her home, exploring the multiple lives of "lofts and stores" in New York City and the emergence of artists cooperatives following World War II.
