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The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.
Main entry:

Carpo, Mario.

Title & Author:

The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Description:

xi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Writing architecture

Notes:
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.
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Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780262515801 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262515806 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Wandel, ...
Arbeitsgruppe Cooperative Arbeitsdidaktik
Architectural design.
Architectural design Technological innovations.
Repetition (Aesthetics)
Design and technology.
Design architectural.
Design architectural Innovations.
Répétition (Esthétique)
Design et technologie.
Architektur
Technische Innovation
Design and architecture

Added entries:

Writing architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271952
Call No.: BIB 205230
Status: Available

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