The alphabet and the algorithm
by Carpo, Mario
"Ever wondered what became of architecture in its digital reincarnation? Mario Carpo vaults from Renaissance aspirations to current conditions at the pace of a breathless fable. Where will it lead us?" -- Kurt W. Forster, Yale School of Architecture.
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- Full title :The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.
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"Ever wondered what became of architecture in its digital reincarnation? Mario Carpo vaults from Renaissance aspirations to current conditions at the pace of a breathless fable. Where will it lead us?" -- Kurt W. Forster, Yale School of Architecture.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 169 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262515801, 0262515806
- oclc:ocn650827413
- 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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