Author:
Title:
The Alphabet and the algorithm.--
Classification:
720.1 C299
Publisher:
Cambridge, MA, Estados Unidos : MIT Press, c2011.
Description:
xi, 169 p. : il. ; 21 cm.
Series:
Writing architecture
ISBN:
9780262515801
Subjects:
Notes:
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Variable, identical, differential. 1.1. Architecture and the identical copy : timelines -- 1.2. Allography and notations -- 1.3. Authorship -- 1.4. The
early modern pursuit of identical reproduction -- 1.5. Geometry, algorism, and the notational bottleneck -- 1.6. The fall of the identicals -- 1.7. The reversal of the Albertian paradigm --
2. The rise. 2.1. Alberti and identical copies -- 2.2. Going digital -- 2.3. Windows -- 2.4. ID pictures and the power of facsimiles -- 2.5. Alberti's imitation game and its technological
failure -- 2.6.The invention of the Albertian paradigm -- 3. The fall. Form -- Standard -- Agency -- 4. Epilogue. Split agency.
