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  • Leonardo Diaz Borioli
  • Prof. Mario Carpo
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      • Architectural History and Criticism
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4.638 | Fall 2002 | Graduate

Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design

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Lecture 1: Introduction: Drawings, numbers, and the power of (printed) images
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Lecture 2: The Primacy of the Word: Vitruvius and the mystery of his missing images
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Lecture 3: Alberti and the (untrustworthy) power of man-made images
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Lecture 4: Alberti's improbable image-making technologies
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Lecture 6: Image-Making Technologies, Architecture, and Identical Replication
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Lecture 7: On some semi-automatic machines for the drawing of the architectural orders oddly invented in the seventeenth century
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Lecture 8: Final Lecture

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  • Leonardo Diaz Borioli
  • Prof. Mario Carpo
Departments
  • Architecture
As Taught In
Fall 2002
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Graduate
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  • Fine Arts
    • Architecture
      • Architectural Engineering
      • Architectural History and Criticism
  • Mathematics
    • Applied Mathematics
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