Research Catalog

Title

The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.

Author

Carpo, Mario.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

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Details

Description

xi, 169 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

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.

Series Statement

Writing architecture

Uniform Title

Writing architecture.

Subjects

• Architectural design
• Architectural design > Technological innovations
• Design and technology
• Repetition (Aesthetics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JQD 18-438

ISBN

• 9780262515801
• 0262515806

LCCN

2010031062

OCLC

650827413

Author

Carpo, Mario.

Title

The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Writing architecture

Writing architecture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/alphabet-algorithm21655

Other Form:

Electronic resource 9780262296694

Research Call Number

JQD 18-438