[DOC] Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast: Your Guide to the Lighthouses of New York; New Jersey; Maryland; Delaware; and Virginia by Elinor DeWire in Arts-Photography

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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 Albertis invention of architectural design; according to which a building is an identical copy of the architects 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.