The Alphabet and the Algorithm

作者：MarioCarpo

出版社：TheMITPress

出版年：2011-2-4

页数：184

定价：USD21.95

装帧：Paperback

丛书：WritingArchitecture

ISBN：9780262515801

内容简介
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Digital technologies have changed architecture–the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti's invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect's design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints, or molds. The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with the rise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. In architecture, this means the end of notational limitations, of mechanical standardization, and of the Albertian, authorial way of building by design. Charting the rise and fall of the paradigm of identicality, Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digital craftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variations that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carpo reviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early 1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age of variable objects and of generic and participatory authorship.

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估计设计白痴才会打低分

希望把垃圾落后的生产力都干掉

从货币的历史出发，历史被分成了三个部分：artisanal(以支票为例), mechanical(以纸币为例)以及digital(以信用卡为例)。这三个时段最大的区别是，工匠时期，产品是相似却不一致的；机械时期，产品是一致的并随着数量的增殖而变得便宜；数字化时期，产品将再次获得相似却不一致的属性，但价格变得与数量增殖与否无关。
书里花了很长的篇幅写Alberti是如何在工匠时期尝试数字化时期的工艺…

数字建造技术启蒙书籍，前部分像计算机专业书籍。。整体来说挺有趣，也为数字建造提供了根据以及“正当”理由lol（Carpo老师无论是讲课还是讲座写书都很喜欢用一堆比喻啊。

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