Carpo, Mario <br/><br/>
The alphabet and the algorithm 
Mario Carpo. 
 - 169 pages ;  21 cm. 
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<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262515801 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Repetition (Aesthetics)<br/>Architectural design--Technological innovations<br/>Architectural design<br/>Design and technology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2750  / .C375 2011