Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

Mario Carpo provides a subtle and insightful discussion of the intellectual structures that guide architectural composition and the ways that these structures were transformed by the historic shifts from script to print and from hand-made drawings to mechanically reproduced images. He goes on to suggest that the current shift from print to digital representations will have similarly profound consequences. This is a crucial text for anyone interested in the interrelationships of media and design processes.William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, MIT