Mario Carpo Books
Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory
By Mario Carpo
"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...
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By Mario Carpo
The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.Digital technologies have changed architecture—the way it is taught, practi...
Read MoreThe Second Digital Turn
By Mario Carpo
The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (C...
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