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.

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." - Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space PART I PROGRAM 2. Computing Environmental Design 3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers 4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality PART II INPUT/OUTPUT 5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum 6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968 7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface PART III STORAGE 8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information 9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings PART IV COMPUTATION 10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry 11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic

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.

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." - Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space PART I PROGRAM 2. Computing Environmental Design 3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers 4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality PART II INPUT/OUTPUT 5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum 6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968 7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface PART III STORAGE 8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information 9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings PART IV COMPUTATION 10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry 11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic

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.

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." - Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space PART I PROGRAM 2. Computing Environmental Design 3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers 4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality PART II INPUT/OUTPUT 5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum 6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968 7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface PART III STORAGE 8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information 9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings PART IV COMPUTATION 10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry 11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic