Theodora Vardouli
M.Arch., P.G.Dip.(NTUA), S.M.Arch.S., Ph.D.(MIT)
Outstanding Academic Service Award, Faculty of Engineering, 捆绑SM社区 (2024)
Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (early career), Faculty of Engineering, 捆绑SM社区 (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)
Theodora Vardouli researches design and architecture鈥檚 entwining with digital technologies and computation. She is an Associate Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at 捆绑SM社区 where she directs the Computational Design Exploratory (CoDEx). Before joining 捆绑SM社区, Vardouli completed a PhD in . She is an External Examiner for two and a member of the editorial board for the journal .
Vardouli鈥檚 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鈥檚 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) 鈥� 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鈥檚 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.
