At the beginning, there were some issues working on the Alice platform, not knowing what to start with, what commands to look for to find books that resemble both in terms of content and theme with mine , “Arhitectura” by Gabriel Kramer. Firstly, I chose as the topic of the conversation “architecture”, as Alice’s brain…
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The book assigned to me is „The Architecture of Palladio“ by Giacomo Leoni. The book contains the projects in which Palladio wanted the purity and simplicity of classical architecture to be known, both in theory and in practice, and is illustrated with Andrea Palladio’s own drawings. In this article I will focus on some keywords,…
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At the very beginning I almost lost myself on the website of the Xenotheka online library because on the main page there were a couple of very interesting articles about modern japanese architecture that really sparked my interest. After I regained my focus I started my search by doing the obvious. I simply tried to…
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Because of the simple fact that my book consists almost only out of drawings, my search on Alice was quite hard. Instead of searching for another book, which also is a collection of architectural drawings, I needed to search for books which discuss the topic of ancient architectural depictions. This way I was still able…
Girl Handled Be aware on 1st Date
When you go with your first date, you don’t know what to expect. It could possibly always be difficult to measure whether proceeding get along. You have no idea who have your date will most likely be, and you can’t genuinely tell in the event that they’re going to be thinking about you. On a…
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Before I opened the Ask Alice search engine, I had an image of a factual neutral website in front of me. When I opened Ask Alice, something completely different came out than I expected. The website is much more colorful and playful than I expected. The first thing I had to do was to find…
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My old friend, de gli obelischi di Roma by Michele Mercati is an in depth treatment of the Egyptian Obelisks in Rome. So to begin with I set the topic of conversation to obelisk and started the conversation with Alice by also typing obelisk. Up came some reasonably interesting results which made me aware of…
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Using Alice was a new experience for me. I easily understood how to search for a word and how to apply a different ‘brain’. What I did not immediately understand was the usage of Alice’s topic. After I got familiar with how Alice works, I started my research using the topic ‘architecture’ and the brain…
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The book under analysis is a work by Johann Rudolph Feasch, Des Jacobi Barozzi von Vignola Grund Regel. As is clear from the title, it deals with mathematical, structural and perspective rules of architecture. Initially, I started with a search for the title of the book and the author for this new task. It seemed…