The Alphabet and the Algorithm by Mario Carpo - ISBN: 9780262515801
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The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.

The Alphabet and the Algorithm

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  • Paperback

    184 pages

  • Release Date

    4 February 2011

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Summary

The rise and fall of identical copies- digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.Digital technologies have changed architecture-the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a “paradigm shift” for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity- the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262515801
ISBN-10:0262515806
Author:Mario Carpo
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:184
Release Date:4 February 2011
Weight:295g
Dimensions:203mm x 137mm x 10mm
Series:Writing Architecture
Audience Age:18
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Critics Review

“On page after page, Carpo engages a difficult set of issues, some of which strikechords that are still resonating.” – Flutur Troshani , Leonardo

“On page after page, Carpo engages a difficult set of issues, some of which strike chords that are still resonating.” – Flutur Troshani, Leonardo

About The Author

Mario Carpo

Mario Carpo is Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, University College London. He is the author of Architecture in the Age of Printing- Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory and The Alphabet and the Algorithm (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.

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