Olga Touloumi Read Bio Collapse
Olga Touloumi is associate professor of architectural history at Bard College. Her first book Assembly by Design situates mid-20th century architectural constructions of global governance within debates on media democracies and liberal internationalism. Touloumi has co-edited Sound Modernities, a volume on how acoustics and sound technologies transformed modern architectural culture during the twentieth century; and with Theodora Vardouli Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground, a volume about the exchanges between designers and computational technologists in Europe and North America. Her writing has appeared at the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architectural Education, Architectural Theory Review, Buildings & Landscapes, Journal of Architecture, and Harvard Design Magazine. Touloumi is the co-founder of the intersectional group Feminist Art and Architectural Collaborative (FAAC). Her new project concerns a feminist microhistory of architectural practice and pedagogy through the life and works of architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington.