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100 _aCarpo Mario
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245 _aArchitecture in the age of printing : orality, writing, typography and printed images in the history of architectural theory
260 _aLondon
_bMIT press
_c2001
300 _aviii,246p.
505 _aCONTENTS Preface to the English Edition vii 1.Prologue: Architectural culture and technological context 1 2. Vitruvius, text and image 16 3. Architectural knowledge in the Middle Ages: Orality and memory versus script and image 23 I. Rules Without Models 23 II.Models without Images 36 4. Architectural drawing in the age of its mechanical reproduction 42 I. Serlio 42 II. Rome in the 1540s 56 III. Paris in the 1540s 71 5. Geneva 79 I. Triumpth and Censorship of the Printed Book 79 II. North and South : Books versus Images, Images without Books, Images in Books 81 III. Illustrated Books and Architectural Treatises in Geneva 88 IV. Serlio’s Orders, Vitruvianism and the Protestant World 96 6. Decline and fall of typographic architecture 103 I. From Shute to Vignola 103 II. From Gesner to Possevino 109 7. The turning point of 1450: Abstract rules versus standardized components in Albertian theory 119 I. Alberti 119 II. Francesco di Giorgio 124 III. Filarete 131 Notes 141 Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works 224 Name Index 237
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