TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carpo,Mario
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - The alphabet and the algorithm
T2  - Writing architecture
AV  - NA2750 .C375 2011
U1  - 720.1 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Repetition (Aesthetics)
KW  - Design and technology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3339194
ER  -