The alphabet and the algorithm

Main Author: Carpo, Mario.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
Series:Writing architecture
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10453040
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300 |a xi, 169 p. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Repetition (Aesthetics) 
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