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

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 kn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carpo, Mario
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Communication in architecture > Europe > History.
Graphic arts > Europe > History.
Architecture
Communication en architecture > Europe > Histoire.
Arts graphiques > Europe > Histoire.
Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > General.
Communication in architecture
Graphic arts
Europe.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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