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100 _aCarpo, Mario
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245 _aAlphabet and the algorithm
260 _aLondon
_bMIT press
_c2011
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440 _aWriting architecture series
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505 _aCONTENTS Preface IX 1 Variable, Identical, Differential 1 1.1 Architecture and the Identical Copy: Timelines 12 1.2 Allography and Notations 15 1.3 Authorship 20 1.4 The Early Modern Pursuit of Identical Reproduction 26 1.5 Geometry, Algorism, and the Notational Bottleneck 28 1.6 The Fall of the Identicals 35 1.7 The Reversal of the Albertian Paradigm 44 2 The Rise 51 2.1 Alberti and Identical Copies 53 2.2 Going Digital 54 2.3 Windows 58 2.4 ID Pictures and the Power of Facsimiles 62 2.5 Alberti's Imitation Game and Its Technological Failure 68 2.6 The Invention of the Albertian Paradigm 71 3 The Fall 81 3.1 Form 83 3.2 Standard 93 3.3 Agency 106 4 Epilogue: Split Agency 123 Notes 129 Index 165
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