The alphabet and the algorithm [electronic resource] / Mario Carpo.
By: Carpo, Mario.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Writing architecture: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011Description: xi, 169 p.Other title: Form, standards, and authorship in times of variable media.Subject(s): Architectural design | Architectural design -- Technological innovations | Repetition (Aesthetics) | Design and technologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 720.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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