Lecture Notes

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SES #	TOPICS
1-2	Lecture 1: Introduction: Drawings, Numbers, and the Power of (Printed) Images (PDF)
3-4	Lecture 2: The Primacy of the Word: Vitruvius and the Mystery of his Missing Images (PDF)
5-6	Lecture 3: Alberti and the (Untrustworthy) Power of Man-made Images (PDF)
7-8	Lecture 4: Alberti's Improbable Image-making Technologies (PDF)
9-10	Lecture 5: No Lecture Discussion of Final Presentation Topics
11-12	Lecture 6: Image-making Technologies, Architecture, and Identical Replication (PDF)
13-14	Lecture 7: On Some Semi-automatic Machines for the Drawing of the Architectural Orders Oddly Invented in the Seventeenth Century (PDF)
15-16	Lecture 8: Final Lecture (PDF) Final Presentations

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