Category: Greetings

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First I chose the inside cover of the book. I first noticed in the online version that at the corner of the page, there seemed to be red ink seeping through onto the page. Only while holding the physical book in my hand, I realized that the pages have been inked on the side and…

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Task 3 Friends with an old Book First of all, I entered Problèmes d’architecture in the Alice search engine, since this is the main topic of my book. It came up mainly umbrella terms like problems of technology and knowledge and the ecosystem. These are difficult and critical issues for us nowadays, which also influence…

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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Mémoire historique sur le Dôme du Panthéon Français Paris, 1797 The book has 118 pages and at the end are additional foldable plans. I choose two pictures of the foldable plans at the end. They remind me of a book for children I used to read, where you can play with the book by…

First Greetings: The architecture of Palladio

Diese Doppelseite befindet sich ungefähr in der Mitte des Buches. Ich habe sie gewählt, weil ich diese Abbildung als ein sehr gutes Beispiel finde, wie man ein Gebäude durch einem Grundriss und einer Frontalansicht verständlich und ästhetisch schön darstellen kann. Als ich dann das Buch und die Doppelseite in Echt gesehen habe, war ich fasziniert,…

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The book is very beautifully bound. The Leather and the red color on the side adds a nice touch. It was a little bit scary to handle this book knowing its age.

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I chose these two pages because there’s text, a sketch and a picture displayed, I think they give a clear image of what’s to be expected from the rest of the book. The cover of the book had a smooth feel to it and was engraved with golden letters on the side, the pages itself…

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I chose the first page because of it’s appearance. A large part of it is brown coloured and it seems like someone spilled their coffee over it or just lightly burnt it. The second page got mz attention because of the beautiful drawings of the front view and the section. I took a picture of…

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Ernst Friedrich von Borgsdorf 1495 Die fotografierten Seiten sind interessant, da durch Skizzen eine Art Festung dargestellt werden. Der Zustand des Buches ist gut erhalten, jedoch kann man kaum die Originalfarbe des Covers oder der Seiten erkennen, da diese über die Jahre vergilbt sind.