ISBN:
9780262269919
,
0262269910
,
0585445974
,
9780585445977
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 246 p.)
Uniform Title:
Architettura dell'età della stampa
Keywords:
Arts graphiques Histoire
;
Europe
;
Communication in architecture History.
;
Graphic arts History.
;
Communication en architecture Histoire.
;
Arts graphiques Histoire.
;
Communication in architecture History
;
Europe
;
Graphic arts History
;
Europe
;
Communication en architecture Histoire
;
Europe
;
Arts graphiques Histoire
;
Europe
;
Europe
;
Communication in architecture History
;
Graphic arts History
;
Graphic arts History
;
Communication in architecture History
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Architecture
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ARCHITECTURE ; Reference
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ARCHITECTURE ; Professional Practice
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ARCHITECTURE ; Adaptive Reuse & Renovation
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ARCHITECTURE ; Buildings ; General
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Communication in architecture ; Europe ; History
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Graphic arts ; Europe ; History
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Communication in architecture
;
Graphic arts
;
History
;
Europe
;
Europe
;
Electronic books
;
Europa
;
Architektur
;
Medien
;
Buchdruck
;
Architekturtheorie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Annotation The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process of recording and transmitting this body of knowledge has reflected the dominant information technologies of each period. In this book Mario Carpo discusses the communications media used by Western architects, from classical antiquity to modern classicism, showing how each medium related to specific forms of architectural thinking. Carpo highlights the significance of the invention of movable type and mechanically reproduced images. He argues that Renaissance architectural theory, particularly the system of the five architectural orders, was consciously developed in response to the formats and potential of the new printed media. Carpo contrasts architecture in the age of printing with what preceded it: Vitruvian theory and the manuscript format, oral transmission in the Middle Ages, and the fifteenth-century transition from script to print. He also suggests that the basic principles of "typographic" architecture thrived in the Western world as long as print remained our main information technology. The shift from printed to digital representations, he points out, will again alter the course of architecture
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue: Architectural culture and technological contextVitruvius, 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-236) and index
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