The alphabet and the algorithm

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carpo, Mario
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
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.