Mario Carpo (*1958, Prof. Dr.) teaches architectural history and theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). He has taught and lectured in several universities in Europe and the United States, most recently at the School of Architecture of Paris-La Villette and at Yale University, and he was the Head of the Study Centre at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 2002 to 2005. Carpo's research and publications focus on the relationship among architectural theory, cultural history, and the history of media and information technology.  

Publications (selection)

• Perspective, Projections and Design. Technologies of Architectural Representation (ed. with Frédérique Lemerle, Routledge, London and New York 2007)
• Leon Battista Alberti’s “Delineation of the City of Rome” (ed. with Francesco Furlan, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2007)
• Architecture in the Age of Printing (The MIT Press 2001; has been translated into several languages)
• La maschera e il modello. Teoria architettonica ed evangelismo nell'Extraordinario Libro di Sebastiano Serlio (Milan: Jaca Book 1993)
• His next monograph, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, is forthcoming in 2011 (also with the MIT Press).