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The aim of this course is to highlight some technical aspects of the classical tradition in architecture that have so far received only sporadic attention.

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It is well known that quantification has always been an essential component of classical design: proportional systems in particular have been keenly investigated. But the actual technical tools whereby quantitative precision was conceived, represented, transmitted, and implemented in pre-modern architecture remain mostly unexplored. By showing that a dialectical relationship between architectural theory and data-processing technologies was as crucial in the past as it is today, this course hopes to promote a more historically aware understanding of the current computer-induced transformations in architectural design.

Course content

  • Introduction: Drawings, Numbers, and the Power of (Printed) Images Unlimited
  • The Primacy of the Word: Vitruvius and the Mystery of his Missing Images Unlimited
  • Alberti and the (Untrustworthy) Power of Man-made Images Unlimited
  • Alberti’s Improbable Image-making Technologies Unlimited
  • Image-making Technologies Unlimited
  • On Some Semi-automatic Machines for the Drawing of the Architectural Orders Oddly Invented in the Seventeenth Century Unlimited
  • Final Lecture Unlimited

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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