Theodora Vardouli

Theodora Vardouli is an Associate Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, where she directs the Computational Design Exploratory (CoDEx). She is the author of awarded articles and chapters on architectural histories of computing and has published three books: Graph Vision: Digital Architecture’s Skeletons (MIT Press forthcoming 2024), Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design (co-authored and co-edited with Daniel Cardoso Llach, Applied Research and Design Publishing 2023) and Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (co-edited with Olga Touloumi, Routledge 2020). Vardouli is a grantee of the Canada Foundation of Innovation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Fonds de recherche du Québec among others. Her work has received several recognitions, including the 2022 Best Paper Award by the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and the 2022 Mahoney Prize (with David Theodore) by the Special Interest Group for Computing Information and Society (SIGCIS). Vardouli holds a PhD and Master of Science in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vardouli was trained as an architect at the National Technical University of Athens from where she obtained professional and post-professional degrees.