The alphabet and the algorithm [electronic resource] / Mario Carpo.

By:

Carpo, Mario

Contributor(s):

ProQuest (Firm)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Writing architecturePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.ISBN:

9780262295925 (electronic bk.)

Other title:

Form, standards, and authorship in times of variable media

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

LOC classification:

NA2750 .C375 2011

Online resources:

Click to View

Contents:

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.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.

No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.