Theodora Vardouli's guest appearances

Theodora Vardouli

New Books in Architecture

Phillipa Chong

Stephen Murray

Ed Bacon

Brian Greene

Paul McClean

Kathryn Conrad

Alberto Cairo

Caitlín Eilís Barrett

McKenzie Wark

Scott Berkun

Chris Reed

Josephine Baker

Eric Reinholdt

Matt Cook

Sam Roberts

OwlTail

Olga Touloumi

Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi's book Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2019) paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development.The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi- material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives.Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/people-0/faculty/vardouli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Theodora Vardouli</a> and <a href="https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=3650" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Olga Touloumi</a>'s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/081539652X/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground</a> (Routledge, 2019) paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development.The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi- material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives.Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture</a>

Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi, "Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground" (Routledge, 2019)