02040nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10453040 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100721s2011 mau sb 001 0 eng d 2010031062 9780262515801 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780262295925 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)710992216 NA2750 .C375 2011eb 720.1 22 Carpo, Mario. The alphabet and the algorithm [electronic resource] / Mario Carpo. Form, standards, and authorship in times of variable media Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011. xi, 169 p. Writing architecture 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Architectural design. Architectural design Technological innovations. Repetition (Aesthetics) Design and technology. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Writing architecture. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10453040 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 125169 125169