Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory. (Reviews).(Book Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory

Trans. Sarah Benson. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2001. viii + 246 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 0-262-03288-0.

The concept of imitation has been central to the creation of architecture and art. In antiquity and the Middle Ages imitation was not a visual act, but was governed either by a literary or oral source. Many years ago Richard Krautheimer in a notable article on the iconography of medieval architecture demonstrated ...

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