Olympia Kazi was appointed executive director of the Institute for Urban Design on vote of the Institute board of directors Suzanne Clarke, Ann Ferebee, Cathy Lang Ho, Michael Sorkin. Kazi is an architecture critic and curator and was educated as an architect at the University of Florence, Italy. She served as junior curator at the Triennale di Milano in 2003-04 and was an artistic producer for the Gala of Gymnastics in the Athens 2004 Olympics. Since 2005, Olympia has lived and worked in New York, and in 2006, she co-curated the traveling exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines” with a team of Princeton University scholars. From 2006 to 2007, she was Fellow of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a member of the Exhibition Committee of the Architectural League of New York and a frequent contributor to the Architect’s Newspaper.
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