ALPHABET AND THE ALGORISTHM

ALPHABET AND THE ALGORISTHM

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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.