The Alphabet and the Algorithm Writing Architecture 1st Edition by Mario Carpo ISBN 0262515806 9780262515801

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ISBN 10: 0262515806

ISBN 13: 9780262515801 

Author: Mario Carpo 

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 to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti’s invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect’s design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints, or molds. The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with the rise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. In architecture, this means the end of notational limitations, of mechanical standardization, and of the Albertian, authorial way of building by design. Charting the rise and fall of the paradigm of identicality, Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digital craftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variations that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carpo reviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early 1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age of variable objects and of generic and participatory authorship.

Table of contents:

1. PREFACE

2. VARIABLE, IDENTICAL, DIFFERENTIAL
    2.1 Architecture and the Identical Copy: Timelines
    2.2 Allography and Notations
    2.3 Authorship
    2.4 The Early Modern Pursuit of Identical Reproduction
    2.5 Geometry, Algorism, and the Notational Bottleneck
    2.6 The Fall of the Identicals
    2.7 The Reversal of the Albertian Paradigm

3. THE RISE
    3.1 Alberti and Identical Copies
    3.2 Going Digital
    3.3 Windows
    3.4 ID Pictures and the Power of Facsimiles
    3.5 Alberti’s Imitation Game and Its Technological Failure

4. THE FALL
    4.1 Form
    4.2 Standard
    4.3 Agency

5. EPILOGUE: SPLIT AGENCY

6. NOTES

7. INDEX

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