BOOKS
2024 Graph Vision: Digital Architecture’s Skeletons (MIT Press)
2023 co-authored and co-edited with Daniel Cardoso Llach Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design (Applied Research and Design Publishing)
2020 co-edited with Olga Touloumi Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society Series)
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2025 Skeletons and Scaffolds, Find & Tell Residency, Canadian Centre for Architecture
2024 with Eliza Pertigkiozoglou and Maxime Leblanc “The Design Methods Meshwork: Activating the Design Methods Group Newsletter Through Digital History.” International Journal of Architectural Computing. doi:10.1177/14780771231220903 [open access]
2024 Homebound in Galo Canizares & Zach Cohen (eds.) Homing the Machine in Architecture. Routledge.
2024 Setting Historic Computer Systems in Motion In Masoud Akbarzadeh, Dorit Aviv, Hina Jamelle, and Robert Stuart-Smith (eds.) ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities, pp. 726-735. | Recipient of the 2022 ACADIA Best Paper Award
2023 Bioptemes and Mechy Max Systems: Topological Imaginations of Adaptive
Architecture. In Philippe Morel and Henriette Bier (eds.) Disruptive Technologies: The Convergence of New Paradigms in Architecture. Springer Series in Adaptive Environments, pp. 7-23.
2022 “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 | Recipient of the 2022 Mahoney Prize
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
INTERVIEWS
2023 “What cannot be modelled?” interview by Angela Rout, New Open Conversations Platform, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
2020 (April 14) with Olga Touloumi “Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground,” interview by Tricia Keffer. [Podcast] New Books Network.
REVIEWS
2023 (July – September) “Review of Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge’s Magical Realm, by George Stiny” Visual Communication Quarterly 30: 194-195
2020 (October) “Review of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice, by Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May” JAE Online
2019 (December) “Review of Digital Architecture Before Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design, by Roberto Botazzi” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78 (4): 496–498
ACADEMIC JOURNALISM
2022 (May 5) “Architect Christopher Alexander Mined Mathematics to Find Patterns for Good Living” The Conversation Canada.
2020 (March 9) “How Architect Yona Friedman Used Math to Design Utopian Cities of the Future” The Conversation Canada.