Book: “De sacris aedificiis a Constantino magno constructis’’ The book talks about churches that were made by Constantine the Great during his time. That is why I decided to take Constantine the great & Constantine church as my main keywords to explore for the search engine. I then chose architecture for the topic of conversation…
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I started my search by entering the title of the book “Maniere de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes” and found a quote taken from Aureli in “the possibility of an absolute architecture”, a book in which the author proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social…
Friends with an old book – Task 3
Attachments Friends with an old book Task 3 (85 kB)Friends-with-an-old-book-Task-3-1 (85 kB)
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Process It has been so long since the last time working on “Friends with an Old Book”, that I had to go through my old posts, to refresh my memory of Charles Antoin Jombert’s work. Since the full title means something along the lines of “Modern architecture: Building good architecture for all kinds of people”,…
How Much Wiring Is in a Aircraft?
Airplane wiring is a system of electrical wiring and connectors used to hold power, detailed data, and safety-related info to airplane systems. The number of wiring within a plane may differ depending on the type of airplane, and is operated by simply several elements. It is important to comprehend the function of the wires and…
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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 “A Collection of designs for rural retreats, as villas” by James Malton depicts designs of British country houses of the 17th century. He talks about the style of villas and highlights the rejection of Roman and Greek styles. Having that in mind I started searching for books that also focus on this topic….
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I immediately knew from the beginning that I wouldn’t want to search on the topic of «architecture» because it seemed to plain and obvious to me. Since the book «LI CINQUE ORDINI DELL’ARCHITETTURA CIVILE DI MICHEL SANMICHELI» is all about the five orders it was clear to me, that those would be my first focus…
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I started searching with a word in the title and most important topic of the book: column. i searched for column with architecture as the topic of conversation an Architecture Library as Alices brain. but unfortunately nothing usable appeared. Books with topics from autopoiesis to politics or different theories appeared, additionally there wasn’t much text,…
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With the book assigned to me being “Compendio della Fortificatione” by Alberghetti, It was pretty clear to me that I needed to search for topics that imply the military. So the first few words I typed into alice were fortification, military and architecture, so that alice could link the topics to architecture. I was really…