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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:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Carpo, Mario.
Architecture in the age of printing.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001
(DLC) 00065368
(OCoLC)45320794
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Mario Carpo
ISBN: 9780262269919 0262269910 0585445974 9780585445977
OCLC Number: 52291077
Description: 1 online resource (viii, 246 p.) : ill.
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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