christina pollina moushoul

about

  • Christina Pollina Moushoul has a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton Univeristy School of Architecture and is a founding member of Office Party. She is currently the R&D Associate at the Museum of Modern Art, the assitant editor at e-flux Architecture, and the co-founder and co-director of the design practice Office Party and Party Planner journal.
  • Education
  • Princeton University School of Architecture
  • Master of Architecture, Septempber 2019 - May 2022
  • History and Theory Prize
  • Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize
  • Certificate in Media + Modernity
  • UCLA School of Arts and Architecture
  • Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies with a Minor in Italian, Septempber 2014 - June 2018
  • Summa Cum Laude
  • Graduate with Distinction
  • Emma B. Keller Fine Arts Scholarship
  • Dean’s Student Council
  • Chancellor’s Marshall
  • work

  • Design
  • Office Party
  • NEW INC: Collective Abundance Showcase, La MaMa Galleria, New York, June 2023
  • Clean Up, gta Exhibitions, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, April 2023
  • Party at ETH Zurich: A Pedagogical Experiment for Unmasking Space, ETH Zürich Department of Architecture, Zürich, Switzerland, April 2023
  • Intimacy Party, pt. 2: Quiet for Disc Journal, Materials and Applications, Los Angeles, January 2023
  • Intimacy Party, pt. 2: Quiet for Disc Journal, Materials and Applications, Los Angeles, January 2023
  • Intimacy Party, pt. 1: Loud for Disc Journal, Bungee Space, New York, January 2023
  • Garden Party , Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April - May 2022
  • Window Shopping, Palmer Square, Princeton, New Jersey, May 2021 - July 2021
  • Good Night, Princeton, New Jersey, May 2021
  • Refik Anadol Studio
  • Lead Exhibition Assistant, Infinity Room, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2019 - April 2019
  • Production Manager and Designer, WDCH Dreams, LA Phil, Los Angeles, CA, September 2018 - October 2018
  • Project Manager and Dramaturg, Das Paradies, LA Phil, Los Angeles, CA, June 2018
  • Exhibition Assistant, Andy Warhol's Rain Machine, Young Projects Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, June 2018
  • Curatorial
  • Cynthia Davidson
  • Lead Exhibition Assistant, Model Behavior, Anyone Corp, Cooper Union, New York City, New York, October 2022
  • Sylvia Lavin
  • Lead Exhibition Assistant, Architecture Aboretum, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Univeristy of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, November 2021 - January 2022
  • Exhibition Assistant, Architecture Aboretum, School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, November 2021 - January 2022
  • Editorial
  • e-flux Architecture (editorial project)
  • Assistant Editor, September 2022 - Ongoing
  • Party Planner (journal)
  • Co-Founding Editor, Vol. 3, "Party Trick," December 2023
  • Co-Founding Editor, Vol. 2, "After Party," January 2023
  • Co-Founding Editor, Vol. 1, "Party Favor," January 2022
  • Best Practices (book) by Erin and Ian Besler
  • Associate Editor, September 2021
  • Pidgin (journal)
  • Editor, Issue 30, Spring 2022
  • Editor, Issue 29, Spring 2021
  • Editor, Issue 28, Fall 2020
  • Editor, Issue 27, Spring 2020
  • Programming
  • MoMA R&D | Salons
  • Producer, Salon 45: Egg, hosted by Paola Antonelli with with video contributions from Amander Clark, Mary Caswell Stoddard, Tim Birkhead, Teman Evans, Nicola Twilley, Emelyn Rude, Chow and Lin, Ashanté Reese, Bartos Theater, Museum of Modern Art, October 16 2023
  • Producer, An Evening with Es Devlin, a conversation between Paola Antonelli and Es Devlin, Bartos Theater, Museum of Modern Art, November 14 2023
  • Producer, Salon 44: Team Sports, hosted by Paola Antonelli with Bobbito Garcia, Tracie Canada, Simon Critchley, Collette V. Smith, and Gabriel Fontana with video contributions from Carlin Wing, Sergio Galaz-García, Ben Carrington, Brenda Elsey, Maggie Popkin, Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Christopher J. Phillips, Emma Witkowski, Bartos Theater, Museum of Modern Art, October 16 2023
  • Producer, Salon 43: Traces, hosted by Paola Antonelli with Christiaan Triebert, Crystal Z Campbell, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Sarah Johnson, and Susan Meiselas with video contributions from Christina Varvia, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Katja Heitmann, Dragan Espenschied, Stefan Helmreich, Susan Schuppli, and Caro Verbeek, Bartos Theater, Museum of Modern Art, September 19 2023
  • Producer, Salon 42: Good, hosted by Paola Antonelli with Miroslav Volf, Agustín Fuentes, Neela Saldanha, Erica Caple James, Marcia Day Childress, and Ani Liu with video contributions from Steven Pinker, Michael Rossi, Mariana Mazzucato, and Timothy Morton, Bartos Theater, Museum of Modern Art, June 9 2023
  • Producer, Salon 41: Performance in Reality, hosted by Paola Antonelli with Barbara Tannenbaum, Aimee Meredith Cox, Jane Coaston, Joan Kee, Richard Sennett, and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko with video contributions from MJ Corey, Dorita Hannah, Shirin M. Rai, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Katherine Gibson, Lina Lapelyte, Deborah Scott and Florentina Holzinger, Bartos Theater, Museum of Modern Art, May 9 2023
  • e-flux Architecture
  • Producer and Host, “New York launch of After Comfort: A User’s Guide,” Daniel A. Barber, Florian Idenburg (SO-IL), Dorit Aviv, and Bobby Johnston and Ruth Mandl (Co-Adaptive)., e-flux Screening Room, December 2 2023
  • Producer and Host, “Paper Beats Rock: The Imperial Institute’s Media,” Zeynep Çelik Alexander, e-flux Screening Room, November 16 2023
  • Producer and Host, “Speaking of Oil: What Is Use-Value?,” Reinhold Martin, e-flux Screening Room, September 21 2023
  • Producer and Host, “Fire, Ice, and Ore: Arctic Elements, Indigenous Resistance, and the Global Energy Transition,” Billy Fleming, e-flux Screening Room, June 22 2023
  • Producer and Host, “Trust Land,” Keller Easterling, e-flux Screening Room, June 6 2023
  • Producer and Host, "The Protective Matrix: Sandbags, Monuments, and Law in the Twentieth Century," Lucia Allais, e-flux Screening Room, May 4 2023
  • Producer and Host, "Generator's Vital Infrastructure," Sylvia Lavin, e-flux Screening Room, April 18 2023
  • Producer and Host, Digestion Talks, Lydia Kallipoliti, Meredith Tenhoor, Lindsey Wikstrom, and Anthony Vidler, e-flux Screening Room, October 17 2022
  • After Party (Princeton SoA)
  • Founder and Co-Producer, April 29 2022
  • Salon Series (Princeton SoA)
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 08: Curating and Editing, Emmanuel Olunkwa and Mostafa Heddaya, South Gallery, Princeton SoA, March 16 2022
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 07: Methods of Scholarship, Ivan L. Munuera, Meredith Tenhoor, and Rachel Price, South Gallery, Princeton SoA, February 23 2022
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 06: Material and Labor, Elisa Iturbe and Lygia Sabbag Fares, South Gallery, Princeton SoA, November 17 2021
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 05: Interdisciplinarity, Marie de Testa and Michael Abel, South Gallery, Princeton SoA, October 7 2021
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 04: What is an Architectural Project?, Ivi Diamantopoulou and Ignacio G. Galán, Zoom, Princeton SoA, November 24 2020
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 03: Shifting Focus, Curt Gambetta, Ingrid Lao, and Larissa Guimaraes, Zoom, Princeton SoA, October 28 2020
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 02: Writing in Architecture, Julian Rose and Courtney Coffman, Zoom, Princeton SoA, October 5 2020
  • Co-Founder and Producer, Salon 01: Previous Work<, SoA Students, Zoom, Princeton SoA, September 14 2020
  • Student Committee for the Arts (Center for the Art of Performance)
  • Co-Producer, Doja Cat with Kilo Kish and Sudan Archives, Royce Hall Main Stage, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, May 2018
  • Executive Producer and Designer, LA Opera Performs in an Immersive Video Installation, Royce Hall Rehearsal Room, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, April 2018
  • Co-Producer, Taylor McFerrin, Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, September 2017
  • Co-Producer, Connan Mockasin with Ravyn Lenae, Royce Hall Mainstage, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, May 2017
  • Executive Producer, LA Opera, Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, April 2017
  • Co-Producer, ESTA., Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, September 2016
  • Hammer Student Association (Hammer Museum)
  • Co-Head of Communications, Arts Party, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, April 2016
  • Research
  • Paola Antonelli
  • R&D Fellow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 2023 – February 2025
  • Sylvia Lavin
  • Research Team Lead, Using Machine Learning to Detect Trees in Architectural Drawings, Collaborative Research Project between Princeton SoA and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, May 2021 – January 2022
  • M. Christine Boyer
  • Research Assistant, Independent Research Project on the Effects of Machine Learning on Our Daily Lives, Princeton SoA, Summer 2020
  • Teaching
  • Princeton School of Architecture
  • Assistant in Instruction, ECS/ARC/ART 376: The Body in Space: Art, Architecture, and Performance, Associate Professor Spyros Papapetros, Spring 2022
  • Assistant in Instruction, ARC 308: History of Architectural Theory, Assistant Professor Jay Cephas, Fall 2021
  • Assistant in Instruction, ARC 501: Architecture Design Studio, Assistant Professor Erin Besler, Fall 2020
  • UCLA School of Art and Architecture
  • Teaching Assistant, TeenArch Studio Summer Institute, Summer 2017
  • Writing
  • (Forthcoming) “Cerulean Pipes” for CLARA Architecture/Recherche "CLARA #9: INTERMEDIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE: Representation and the Aesthetics of Reflexivity," December 2023
  • Sole Author
  • “At the Center of the University” for Fresh Meat Journal "FM 13: Isolated Collectives," January 2023
  • Sole Author
  • “From Site to Set: the Multi-Scalar Effect of Architectural Models in Crafting Gender and Sexuality in Postwar Italy” for Are you a model? International Conference, TU Darmstadt, November 2-4, 2022 (conference)
  • Co-Author with Giulia Amoresano
  • “Did Hole in Space Create Place?" in Media Fields Journal, "Issue #16: Modularity and Modification,"" October 2022
  • Sole Author
  • “Shifting Foundations: An Analysis of First-Semester Core Studio at the Princeton SoA" in CARTHA Magazine, Learning Architecture, June 2022
  • Sole Author
  • “Christina Moushoul Recites June Jordan” in New York Review of Architecture, Issue #27, March 2022
  • Sole Author
  • “The Many Trees of Cedric Price’s Generator Project” in POOL, Issue No.6: Plant, Spring 2020
  • Sole Author
  • Speaking
  • "Scheduling Conflicts" as part of Los Angeles Contemporary Archive: Break Room Workshops for Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, December 9, 2023
  • "The Seminar and the Sleaze: Party as Pedagogy" read at Writing on Raving, hosted by McKenzie Wark and Zoe Beery at Nowadays, Brooklyn, September 6, 2023
  • Exhibition of Work
  • Party Planner, Vol. 1, "Party Favor," on display at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive installation break room at Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2023
  • Currents Gallery, School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA, Fall 2016
  • Currents Gallery, School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA, Winter 2017
  • Currents Gallery, School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA, Spring 2017
  • Currents Gallery, School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA, Fall 2018
  • Currents Gallery, School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA, Winter 2018
  • contact

  • Email: christina.moushoul@gmail.com
  • Instagram: @christinamoushoul, @office.party, @partyplanner2022