Loretta Dolukhanyan war born in the Armenian capital on 29 January 1937 to Karen Dolukuhanyan, an engineer. She devoted herself to writing and the history of Armenian architecture during her studies. After graduating from Polytechnic Institute of Yerevan in 1960, she continued to devote herself, as a doctor of architecture, to researching architectural processes and history in 20th century Armenia, receiving her PhD in 1978. Working as an academic advisor to the Engineering Academy of Armenia, Dolukhanyan pursued the writing of architectural events on the side. Through her essays, the processes of architecture and names of significant architects were published. Her first work was published in 1980 and deals with Soviet Armenian architecture of the 1920s. In Armenian, as well as Russian, she wrote articles on the life and works of Armenian architects. Among others, she wrote about A. Tamanyan, who ran an architectural office in which Tamar Tumanyan  worked. She also wrote a book about the architect Nikoghayos Buniatyan (1878-1943), immortalising his importance for Armenian architecture. The book was officially published in 2015 by the Antares publishing house in Yerevan. But the first edition had already been published in 1990. In an interview, she shared the following with questioner Pavel Dzhangirov:

“No, it was not even a book, but a paperback brochure that was not even printed in those years. I revised it, supplemented it with new materials, watercolours of Buniatyan, his measurements, manuscripts. Unfortunately, the measurements were partially retained. In the archives I found a list of measurements that his widow had submitted to the Committee for the Protection of Monuments. Garni alone was forty sheets! Now there are a few left. The same – according to the Basilica of Ereruk, most of the measurements have been lost.

Finally, I would like to note that the beautifully designed book was published by Antares Publishing House by the decision of the Academic Council of the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences and thanks to the support and interest of the Municipality of Yerevan and the Union of Architects of Armenia.” (Lola Dolukhanyan, 1990)