The alphabet and the algorithm

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.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 169 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780262295925, 026229592X, 9780262294584, 0262294583
  • oclc:ocn710992216
  • 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

Arbeitsgruppe Cooperative Arbeitsdidakt… Architectural design Architectural design -- Technological i… ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planni… Architektur Design and technology Design architectural Design architectural -- Innovations Design et technologie Electronic books Repetition (Aesthetics) Répétition (Esthétique) Technische Innovation Wandel

Writers

Carpo, Mario

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