The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.
| Author/creator | Carpo, Mario |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | xi, 169 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Writing architecture Writing architecture. ^A369902 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010031062 |
| ISBN | 9780262515801 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262515806 (pbk. : alk. paper) |