TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carpo,Mario
TI  - Alphabet and the algorithm 
T2  - Writing architecture
SN  - 9780262515801
AV  - NA2750 .C375 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Repetition (Aesthetics)
KW  - Design and technology
N1  - 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
ER  -