The title of the book, is quite general in its wording and gives the impression of very forward thinking, ahead of its time point of view, of the author. It suggests an analytical, comparative and observant text on Chinese design, in a time, when the westerners didn’t know as much about it as we do now….
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The Title „Opera di Francesco Borromino”, composed by Sebastiano Giannini, can be translated to “The Opera of Francesco Borromino”.Appearance wise it`s rather thin, though tall and covered in leather.There is barely any text in the book except for the first three to four pages.In the rest, every second page has a hand drawn image.The first…
Argument 301
The title of the book already says a lot about the content. “Handy Architecture” is the title and already describes that this book explains all the basic things that are needed for architecture. First, the book covers definitions of geometric measurements of planes, surfaces, and buildings. Then it speaks about triangles, quadrilaterals, and polygonal figures….
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Descripción del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de el Escorial – Andres Ximenez General information The title of my book is “Descripción del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de el Escorial”, written by Andrés Ximénez, which automatically describes what the intention of the book is: This book describes the royal monastery of San Lorenzo…
Task II – Del palazzo de’ Cesari – Francesco Bianchini
Del palazzo de’ Cesari – F. Bianchini The author of the book is Francesco Bianchini. He was born on 13th December 1662 and died on 2nd March 1729. He was an Italian philosopher and scientist. The book “Del palazzo de’ Cesari” is a posthumous work, what means that is appeared after his death. It was…
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Architectura de postium seu portalium ornatu vario is the full title of my friend the old book. Translated from latin this means as much as: the architecture of doors and portals and their various ornaments. The authors name was Wendling Dietterlin he lived from 1550-1599 around Strasbourg. He worked as a painter and construction theorist….
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To understand the context of the book it is helpful to first take a look at the author, Jean-François de Neufforge , his circumstances and the circumstances under which “Recueil elementaire d’architecture” was written. De Neufforge was born in the early 18th century in Belgium but spent most of his life in Paris. He worked…
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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…
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The book has a pretty thick binding and is approximately 3cms thick. I was surprised how heavy it was. Alone from the smell you could tell it’s quite an old book.
Task 1 – Greetings
In my opinion it’s very interesting, how the artist of this pictures managed to draw a cut threw the building while still drawing the outside from it. The detail of the drawings is also amazing.