Doula X Design

It was my honor to introduce Julia Gamolina as the kick off speaker for the 2026 Architalx season. Thank you, Julia, for sharing your story, vision, and passion with us. It was an incredible evening. ❤️💜
 
“On a personal note, Julia reached out to me just a few years out of architecture school with an idea—to build a platform that would make women in design visible in a way the discipline had long failed to do. At the time, I was getting plenty of emails from young architects. Most were asking for something. Julia wasn’t. She was proposing something. And there was a clarity—and frankly, a boldness—in how she saw both the problem and her role in changing it that made it impossible to ignore.
 
I invited her into the office to workshop the idea with a roundtable of women at SHoP That was the beginning. Nearly a decade later, what Julia has built with Madame Architect is not just a platform—it’s a correction. A reframing of who gets seen, who gets documented, and who gets to shape the narrative of this profession.
 
As my friend and colleague Megan Chusid put it: “Great leaders see potential in you and create the conditions for it to breathe. They don’t just build beautiful spaces—they build each other up.”
 
Julia doesn’t just participate in architecture—she is actively reshaping its culture.
It is my absolute pleasure and honor to welcome Julia to Portland, to Architalx, and to the stage.”

Next up, David Hill hillworksdesign on 4/14! Link to tix in bio.