First, I started with the word “Architecture” in the body and wanted to find discussions on “civil architecture”. It was interesting, as Alice guided me to Comedies and Plays and books on Ethics. I think it had to do with the word “civil”. I then had to figure out what civil architecture means in the…
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The treatise of Camillo Agrippa is a piece of work imagining the transfer of an antique Obelisk to the Piazza San Pietro. The book is all about the possible techniques on how to move the Obelisk and not about the context. Agrippa doesn’t explain anything about the Obelisk and it’s history, neither does he mention…
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Das Buch «anderer Versuch seiner architect» von Johann Rudolf Fäsches beinhaltet alte, architektonische Radierungen und Zeichnungen verschiedener antiker Gebäude. Jedes dieser Gebäude wird im Schnitt und im Grundriss dargestellt. In seinen Texten richtet er sich an lehrende Ingenieure und ArchitektInnen. Um ähnliche Bücher in der Alice Suchmaschine zu finden, gab ich Begriffe wie «section», «drawing»,…
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For this third exercise I used the following comparison words: Obelisk, Rome, Christianity, symbol of power and obelisk in Rome I entered these search terms into Alice using the Xenotheka Library brain. I came across two books. With the search term obelisk I came across the book by Rem Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture. The search term…
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I started by rereading the description of my book I had written for the second task. I picked out some key words I was particularly interested in looking up or thought relevant to James Gibbs literature and therefore interesting to research. The first was “Drawing in a more exact and easy matter”. I wondered whether…
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It was quite difficult to find a book similar to “A Book of Architecture” by James Gibbs, because the book contains mostly pictures and illustrations of buildings. There is no such topics or themes that I can search on Alice and Xenotheca. So I just started with the search of “James Gibbs” on Alice. By…
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I made my foray at exploring the new search engine Alice and the online library Xenotheke by entering the name of my chosen literature, Specimens of Gothic Architecture. Almost instantaneously, a plethora of search results popped up, and the first that captured my attention was a book titled Late Gothic Architecture-Its evolution, Extinction, and Reception,…
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Given the rather strange and specific nature of the content of my old book I felt there were multiple aspects of the book I could isolate and try to find new books relating to that specific aspect. Since “Della transportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V» is a book about obelisks I thought…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 At a started the assignment I wondered what topics I should begin with. I decided to brainstorm a little. The first step I took was write the whole title and choosing some of the words. For example the obvious one in this case would…