The alphabet and the algorithm / / Mario Carpo
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| Autore: |
Carpo Mario
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| Titolo: |
The alphabet and the algorithm / / Mario Carpo
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xi, 169 p |
| Disciplina: | 720.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Architectural design |
| Architectural design - Technological innovations | |
| Repetition (Aesthetics) | |
| Design and technology | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The alphabet and the algorithm |
| ISBN: | 0-262-29458-3 |
| 1-283-02017-3 | |
| 9786613020178 | |
| 0-262-29592-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823593203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Writing architecture.