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Architecture in the age of printing : orality, writing, typography, and printed images in the history of architectural theory
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Architecture in the age of printing : orality, writing, typography, and printed images in the history of architectural theory

Author: Mario Carpo
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mario Carpo
ISBN: 0262032880 9780262032889
OCLC Number: 45320794
Description: viii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Other Titles: Architettura dell'età della stampa.
Responsibility: Mario Carpo ; translated by Sarah Benson.

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