The alphabet and the algorithm

by Carpo, Mario

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 02 mai 2012).

TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn840860961
  • LC Classification:NA2750
  • Dewey Decimal:720.1

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Architectural design Architectural design -- Technological i… Design and technology Design architectural Design architectural -- Innovations Design et technologie Livres électroniques Repetition (Aesthetics) Répétition (Esthétique)

Writers

Carpo, Mario

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