orality, writing, typography, and printed images in the history of architectural theory /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mario Carpo ; translated by Sarah Benson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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MIT Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 246 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-236) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.