Submitted by Jonathan Budd
Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History
Architecture News - Dec 24, 2007 - 15:22 5805 views
The standardized, widely diffused printed image as a constant,easily accessible point of reference, model, method, and self-evidentauthority may indeed support the claim that "if Renaissancearchitecture is different from medieval architecture, it might just bethat Gutenberg... had something to do with it" {p. 15}. The nature ofthe difference and the importance of the printed illustrated treatisein achieving it may not quite align with Carpo`s views, but, in placingthe printing press at center stage, he may nevertheless be on tosomething.
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