The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.

The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carpo, Mario
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:	Writing architecture.
Subjects:	Wandel, ... Arbeitsgruppe Cooperative Arbeitsdidaktik Architectural design. Architectural design > Technological innovations. Repetition (Aesthetics) Design and technology. ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning. Architectural design Design and technology Architektur Technische Innovation
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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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