orality, writing, typography, and printed images in the history of architectural theory /
Mario Carpo ; translated by Sarah Benson.
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2001.
viii, 246 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-236) and index.
Prologue: Architectural culture and technological context -- Vitruvius, text and image -- Architectural knowledge in the Middle Ages: Orality and memory versus script and image -- Architectural drawing in the age of its mechanical reproduction -- Geneva -- Decline and fall of typographic architecture -- The turning point of 1450: Abstract rules versus standardized components in Albertian theory.