Friends with an old book The very first step was to reflect on my previous posts. I had to go back to my book to select the keywords. Because the author of my book, Pierre Patte, is famous for presenting the first “sectional plan”, I thought that would be my first keyword. However, it led…
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Since the book “Oeuvres d’Architescture” by the author Marie-Joseph Peyer consists largely of pictures, I have tried to describe them in order to find a similar book. However, this did not turn out to be very easy, as it was very difficult to choose terms that describe the book and the pictures it contains. I…
Friends with an old Book
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As explained in the previous tasks, I have a book that consists of pictures except for some subtitles. Obviously, it was not easy to find suitable keywords for Alice. I tried Aurel and Triumph. I got 90 results. One book that caught my eye was Alberti, 10 books of architecture from 1755. “These were monuments…
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Before starting to search for similar books, I wanted to refresh my knowledge about “Kurzgefasste Einleitung zur Perspectiv”. I looked at the previous two exercises we did last semester and wrote down the topics I found most important, then tried to find about ten keywords I could later use for my search. For example perspective,…
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As Alice’s brain I picked the Xenotheka library. I chose architecture as the topic of conversation. I used basilica as the term for search. The explore button is many-sided and that’s the reason why I used this instead of the Find button. I didn’t quite get the wanted results. That’s why I changed the topic…
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Task 3 – Topographia Gallilae in the Alice search engine. Using Alice’s architecture library brain when searching for the terms „france 1665 architecture“ the search engine delivered some useful results. In his book „the architectural capriccio“, the author Lucien Steil describes how the works of the french painter Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665) drew his…
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To begin my research with the search engine Alice, I defined „Alberti and Vitruvius Library“ as the brain. The first topic of conversation is plain and simple: architecture. As the search term I used „ancient architecture“ because Vitruvius focuses on the architecture of those who came before. This combination led me to the first comparison:…
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The book of Joseph Fruttenbach, Architectura civilis, is quite a hard read because of it’s old language. So reading the book was not easy from the beginning, but it was possible after all. What the book is about was clear already, but for me the keywords were important. Fruttenbach writes about how certain buildings, especially…
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First I tried to refreshen my memory about the last task. ‚Cours d’architecture‘ is a huge book which contains a lot of information. I was looking for general information about the author of the book, Augustin Charles d’Avigner and the things he generally preached. So my search was more based on books which put him…