The alphabet and the algorithm
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Writing architecture.
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Table of 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.