Theodora Vardouli

Theodora Vardouli, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University. Her research examines histories, cultural meanings, and practical implications of algorithmic techniques for describing, generating, and simulating architecture. Vardouli’s articles have been published in Leonardo, Design Studies, Perspective, Nexus, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ) and several edited collections. She is co-editor with Olga Touloumi of the collection of essays Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge 2020) and co-author with Daniel Cardoso Llach of Designing the Computational Image (forthcoming AR+D 2021) — a book catalogue of the eponymous 2018 exhibition and its Montreal expansion Vers un imaginaire numérique, which she is co-curating. Her in-progress monograph historically situates the rift between the perceptual and operational realm of architectural geometry —what one sees on the screen and how one manipulates it— in transactions of twentieth century architectural and mathematical cultures. Vardouli holds a PhD and a SMArchS in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma and an MArch from the National Technical University of Athens. Her research has been supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et Culture, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Onassis, Leventis, and Fulbright Foundations.