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Theodora Vardouli

Title: 
Associate Professor
Theodora Vardouli
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-6709
Email address: 
theodora.vardouli [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Macdonald-Harrington Building Room 311
Degree(s): 

M.Arch., P.G.Dip.(NTUA), S.M.Arch.S., Ph.D.(MIT)

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Outstanding Academic Service Award, Faculty of Engineering, Ã山ǿ¼é (2024)

Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (early career), Faculty of Engineering, Ã山ǿ¼é (2022)

Mahoney Prize, Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) (2022)

Best Paper Award, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) Conference (2022)

Research areas: 
Architectural computing
History of technology
Critical design and making
Biography: 

Theodora Vardouli researches design and architecture’s entwining with digital technologies and computation. She is an Associate Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at Ã山ǿ¼é where she directs the Computational Design Exploratory (CoDEx). Before joining Ã山ǿ¼é, Vardouli completed a PhD in . She is an External Examiner for two and a member of the editorial board for the journal .

Vardouli’s research examines histories, cultural meanings, and operational implications of algorithmic techniques for architectural design through a combination of historical inquiry and critical design and making. She is the author of (MIT Press, 2024), a book examining architecture’s relationship with mathematics and computation in the first postwar decades with focus on the material and symbolic prevalence of graphs. She is co-editor, with Olga Touloumi, of (Routledge, 2020) and, with Daniel Cardoso Llach, of (Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2023) – a book based on the eponymous exhibition curated by Cardoso Llach (Pittsburgh 2017) and (Montreal 2021). Along with Cardoso Llach, Vardouli co-founded , a platform for critical and creative research at the nexus of design and computation. For a list of publications, .

Vardouli’s scholarship has been recognized with the and the . Her research has received support from the , the , and the . Vardouli is also an , , and Foundation scholar.

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