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…
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First I wrote down some words, that I thought to stand in connection with the topic of my book: Fortification, attack, defense, warfare, attack, etc. Next I had planned to type them into Alice and get my results. Easy as that. But I had some trouble figuring Alice out. It took me a while but…
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As determined in Task 2, “Recueil élémentaire d’architecture” by Jean-François de Neufforge was meant to give general examples and inspirations from all known architecture at the time. While doing my research I worked with the Xenotheka library and Alice as well as the Online Etymology Dictionary and Thesaurus. I worked with most of Alice’s brains,…
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