The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.

By: Carpo, Mario [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Writing architectureCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011©2011 Description: xi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0262515806 (paperback)Subject(s): Architectural design | Architectural design -- Technological innovations | Repetition (Aesthetics) | Design and technologyLOC classification: NA2750 .C37 2011
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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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.