The alphabet and the algorithm

Carpo, Mario.

The alphabet and the algorithm [electronic resource] / Form, standards, and authorship in times of variable media Mario Carpo. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011. - Writing architecture . - Writing architecture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Variable, identical, differential. Architecture and the identical copy : timelines -- Allography and notations -- Authorship -- The early modern pursuit of identical reproduction -- Geometry, algorism, and the notational bottleneck -- The fall of the identicals -- The reversal of the Albertian paradigm -- The rise. Alberti and identical copies -- Going digital -- Windows -- ID pictures and the power of facsimiles -- Alberti's imitation game and its technological failure -- The invention of the Albertian paradigm -- The fall. Form -- Standard -- Agency -- Epilogue. Split agency.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780262295925 (electronic bk.)




Architectural design.
Architectural design--Technological innovations.
Repetition (Aesthetics)
Design and technology.


Electronic books.

NA2750 / .C375 2011

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