The alphabet and the algorithm, Mario Carpo
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The alphabet and the algorithm, Mario Carpo
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The alphabet and the algorithm
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bibliographydictionaries
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710992216
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Mario Carpo
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Writing architecture
Table of 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
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