The Alphabet and the Algorithm

by 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515806
• ISBN13: 9780262515801
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher