The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.
Material type:
TextSeries: Writing architecturePublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262515806
- 9780262515801
- 720.1 22
- NA2750 .C375 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.1 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A502567B |
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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.
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