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
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