Graph Vision

“Vardouli has done an excellent job. She is fully in command of all the mathematics and computation and has ploughed her way through many dusty, indigestible documents to produce her lucid and attractive account.”
—Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

“Through the wealth of drawings she includes and the erudition of her endnotes, Vardouli provides ample material not only for further historical investigations but also for present-day architects to shake the skeletons in their disciplinary closet.”
—Technology and Culture

“Graph Vision is a fascinating book, for architects, philosophers, mathematicians, computer scientists, historians: each of whom will find their own path through the story.”
—The British Journal for the History of Science

“Graph Vision offers a compelling, painstakingly detailed, and elegant overview of a period in architectural research which, at first glance, would appear far removed from the technological condition we inhabit. Through a closer inspection, however, we observe not only the persistence of recurrent themes—mathematics, philosophy, design’s political agency—but also the importance of having a vision… A reminder that digital architecture was never just about technology.”
—Khōrein

“The thoroughness of the research is outstanding. [Graph Vision] is so jam-packed with specific moments that [Vardouli] reverts to ‘interludes’ to relate a number of minor tales of Yona Friedman, Christopher Alexander, and Lionel March working out exacting mathematical calculations using graphs. One can almost sense what the historic figures had for lunch. The rigor and detail leave little room to mistake CAD for a novelty.”
—IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Theodora Vardouli is Associate Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University. She is coauthor and coeditor of Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design and coeditor of Computer Architectures- Constructing the Common Ground.

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