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Author Carpo, Mario.

Title The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series Writing architecture
Writing architecture.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Wandel, ... gnd
Arbeitsgruppe Cooperative Arbeitsdidaktik gnd
Subject Architectural design.
Architectural design -- Technological innovations
Repetition (Aesthetics)
Design and technology.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architectural design
Design and technology
Repetition (Aesthetics)
Architektur
Technische Innovation
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010031062
ISBN 9780262295925
026229592X
9780262294584
0262294583
1283020173
9781283020176
9786613020178
6613020176