Mario Carpo Lecture "Further Reflections on The Alphabet and the Algorithm - KSU CAED 2013.04.17

via: KentCAEDevents Blog

Kent State’s CAED hosts Mario Carpo
Wednesday, April 17, 7:00pm
University Auditorium, Cartwright Hall

The CAED Spring 2013 Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, April 17 with a talk by Dr. Mario Carpo. He will discuss his book The Alphabet and the Algorithm (MIT, 2011) and draw out the implications of the book’s treatment of digital technology, new approaches to making, and his research into the long tradition of pre-digital efforts to index built form to graphic media.

Carpo is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at Yale. He has also taught at numerous universities in Europe and the US, including the University of Florence, Cornell, MIT, and Princeton. He has been a resident at the American Academy in Rome and a resident scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Carpo has published widely on topics at the intersection of media theory and architectural theory/history. His work on Leon Battista Alberti has revolutionized our understanding of the early development of renaissance architectural theory. His Architecture in the Age of Printing (MIT, 2001) is an authoritative guide to the role of print technology in the development of early modern architecture. His recent work brings a deep understanding of media technology to efforts to understand how digital modeling and simulation are changing design.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Directions and parking information may be found athttp://www.kent.edu/campuses/maps/map.cfm

For more information contact Professor Steve Rugare at srugare@kent.edu.