The alphabet and the algorithm
By: Mario Carpo
Series: Writing architecture
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780262515801
Subjects: Repetition (Aesthetics); Technological innovations; Design and technology; Architectural design
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Variable, identical, differential. Architecture and the identical copy : timelines; title: Allography and notations; title: Authorship; title: The early modern pursuit of identical reproduction; title: Geometry, algorism, and the notational bottleneck; title: The fall of the identicals; title: The reversal of the Albertian paradigm; title: The rise. Alberti and identical copies; title: Going digital; title: Windows; title: ID pictures and the power of facsimiles; title: Alberti's imitation game and its technological failure; title: The invention of the Albertian paradigm; title: The fall. Form; title: Standard; title: Agency; title: Epilogue. Split agency.