EDITED COLLECTION
2020 Vardouli Theodora and Olga Touloumi (eds.) Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground. Routledge Research in Design, Technology, and Society Series.
Introduction by the editors and essays by Peder Anker, Annmarie Brennan, Theodora Vardouli, Molly Wright Steenson, David Theodore, Rachel Plotnick, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Shannon Mattern, Matthew Allen, Alma Steingart.
Endorsements
This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice.” – Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Listen to interview by Tricia Keffer for New Books in Architecture
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2021 “Points and Lines, Nodes and Rods: Megastructure, Graph Realism, and Yona Friedman’s Scientific Architecture.” ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly. 25 (3): 245-254
2021 with David Theodore “Walking instead of Working: Space Allocation, Automatic Architecture, and the Abstraction of Hospital Labor.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 43 (2): 6-17
2020 “Skeletons, Shapes, and the Shift from Surface to Structure in Architectural Geometry.” Nexus Network Journal 22: 487–505
2020 “Computing Choice: Self-Design, Configurators, and the Enumerative Imagination” In Teresa Fankhänel (ed.) The Architecture Machine. Birkhäuser, pp. 172-179
2020 Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone: Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality. In Vardouli T and Olga Touloumi (eds.) Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground. Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society Series, pp. 58-76
2020 with Olga Touloumi. Toward a Polyglot Space. In Vardouli T and Olga Touloumi (eds.) Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground. Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society Series, pp. 1-11
2019 Martin Bressani, Mario Carpo, Reinhold Martin, Antoine Picon et Theodora Vardouli, «L’architecture à l’heure du numérique, des algorithmes au projet», Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art 2019 – 2: Multiples: 113-142
2019 Dissimilar at First Sight: Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory. In Ahrens Ch. and Aaron Sprecher (eds.) Instabilities and Potentialities, Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture, Routledge, pp. 209-220
2019 with Maxime Leblanc. “Bursting the Bubble: VR Head Mounted Displays and the Limits of Limitless Worlds.” Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA): Ubiquity and Autonomy, pp. 41-50
2015 “Making Use: Attitudes to Human-Artifact Engagements”. Special Issue on Computational Making Design Studies 41 (Part A): 137-161
2015 Who Designs?: Technological Mediation in Design Participation. In Bihanic D. Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services, 13–41. Springer International Publishing