Starting the third task, I decided to have a look at the second task in order to remember what I have found interesting and what was striking. My book is called “A Dissertation on Oriental gardening” by William Chambers, which was written in 1772. Regarding this I chose to give the words “oriental gardening” a…
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After getting used to the Alice search engine through the tutorial I experimented with a lot of different words and topics. My book: “Grund Regeln über die fünff Säulen» from Des Jacobi Barozzi von Vignola is about different styles of columns. It has many illustrations. For Alice´s brain I found the best results with the…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 For the third task of ‘friends with an old book i tried to find the topic which makes the book ‘L’expérience de l’architecture militaire” special or interesting. Of course, as the title already claims, it is about military architecture. But it isn’t only a…
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My first step in researching possibly related books in the xenotheka with Askalice was to take a look at my previous work on Wendel Dietterlin’s Architectura. I began by searching very simple and broad terms. Door, entrance, and portal and their respective plurals were my first ideas. The term entrances lead me to quickly discover…
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There is very little information at first glance on Livre d’architecture by Boffrand, which led to initial difficulties in finding keywords to ask Alice about. However, after reading into the book and interpretations of it e.g. by Van Eck in Eighteenth-Century Architecture, I discovered the book’s and authors’ close link to the concept of Architecture…
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As I started my research on Alice to find related literature for my book, “architecture pratique” I first focused on terms like; practice, handbook, geometry, order, price, material. As the brain, I used the Xenotheka Library to keep the search wide. As the topic of conversation, I used architecture. I noticed that the different terms…
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Zu Beginn der Aufgabe fiel es mir schwer, passende Bücher zu finden. Wenn ich Begriffe wie «Die fünf Ordnungen», «Säule» oder «Decor» usw. suchte, kam ich auf etliche Bücher und Literatur, die sich immer mit ähnlichen Fragen zu Proportionen und Gestaltung auseinandersetzen. Als ich dann, durch die zufällige Eingabe ähnlicher Begriffe, auf eine Sammlung von Wettbewerbseingaben bedeutender Gebäude aus den 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderten stiess,…
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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»,…