Category: Old Friends

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its not easy to have a friendship with such an old book. with a book who is thinking in a very different way then i do. but also astonished me with knowledge full of little treasures. let me make an example. the book is talking as if there would exist only one gender the masculine….

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My book and my friend is called «A treatise on civil architecture» written by William Chambers. And because he dealt with columns in the first chapter, I typed in «Columns», after I continued looking for «Civil architecture» and in addition typed in the name of the first chapter «Origin of buildings» in the search engine…

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First, I started to swim read my book “Del palazzo de’ Cesari. Opera postuma” by Francesco Bianchini once again with the help of archive.org. I was looking for clues to feed Alice with certain key words, names etc. to relate my book to others. Since I already knew that the book was about temples and…

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The book: «Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti» by Teofilo Gallaccini is a critical piece and tries to expose errors in contemporary architecture, so I used this knowledge to start a conversation with alice about other critical writings and she recommended “Bernini’s Biographies: Critical Essays” by Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Anita Levy, Steven…

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Xenotheka_20 At first I tried searching using the title of the book and the name of the author. However I didn’t find much on the search engine. I decided to take a different approach and use keywords from the book or similar topics to the book. Since our book was a guide for architecture I…

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The book assigned to me is „Lo inganno de gl’occhi“ by Pietro Accolti and picks out as a central theme the deception of our visual perspective, when observing a building or our surroundings. In this article I will focus on some Keywords, which are mentioned in this book. Shading is also a very important part…

Argument_228_Course de architecture

Cours d’architecture is a treatise on architecture by French architect and theorist Jacques-François Blondel. First published in 1771, it was the first architecture textbook published in France, and went through a number of editions and translations over the next several decades. The work was very influential in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly in…

Task 3 – Xenotheka 98

At the beginning I needed to revisit my old blog post I made about Peyres book “Oeuvres d’Architecture” since I’ve mostly forgotten her words, but not so much her impressive drawings. Firstly, I began with typing in “drawings”. That was a dead end, because I didn’t quite realize that typing out the word wouldn’t get…

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“Designs of Inigo Jones and others” by Isaac Ware published 1742 A big question mark was written across my face as I read through Task 3. What was my book about again? I just remembered that there was nothing written in it, but “only” a few sketched pages. So my first step was to read…