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The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carpo, Mario.
- Series:
- Writing architecture.
- Writing architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural design.
- Architectural design--Technological innovations.
- Repetition (Aesthetics).
- Design and technology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 169 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29458-3
- 1-283-02017-3
- 9786613020178
- 0-262-29592-X
- OCLC:
- 939263718
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