The full title of the book is “resolution des quatre principeaux problèmes d’achitecture” from Francois Blondes. In my opinion the book is for all people involved in architecture, as it points out the obvious problems of architecture, which are also today known. List of contents: The book is divided in such a way that it…
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The book, whose full title Translates from French to: “the universal art of fortifications, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and compounds.” Is followed by a subtitle sentence which reads: “With the Art of attacking fortified places by surprise and by force, and also to defend fortified places against surprises and force.” Those two sentences already contain…
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The book is called “Collection of designs for rural retreats as villas. Principally in the Gothic and Castle styles of Architecture. With their Iconography or Plans, laid down to Scale and other Appendages. » Therefore we from first sight know that the book compiles different designs and descriptions of villas in a rural context. List of…
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Joseph Furttenbach the Edler “Architectura civilis” “Architectura civilis” in English: Civil architecture. The book is a work of architectural theory. Fruttenbach reports on the “noble” art of architecture. Theoretical aspects are given for the construction of palaces and their surroundings, common dwellings, churches, chapels, altars, houses of God and buildings such as military hospitals and…
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Friends with an old Book Task 2 Title: Universae Architecturae Civilis Elementa Author: Christian Rieger Publication Date: 1756 The book Universae Architecturea Civilis Elementa, published in 1756is in Latin. The title describes the contents of the book, thus writes about civil architecture. It most likely served the students of the Theresian Knight’s Academy in Vienna…
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De Gli Obelischi di Roma is the title of the book. The title is written in Italian, as the whole book, and translated it means “About the Obelisks in Rome”. In the book, “Mercati, Michele Basa”, the author of the book, goes into the specialties, origins, backgrounds, differences and other aspects of the obelisks in…
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The title of the book, is quite general in its wording and gives the impression of very forward thinking, ahead of its time point of view, of the author. It suggests an analytical, comparative and observant text on Chinese design, in a time, when the westerners didn’t know as much about it as we do now….
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The Title „Opera di Francesco Borromino”, composed by Sebastiano Giannini, can be translated to “The Opera of Francesco Borromino”.Appearance wise it`s rather thin, though tall and covered in leather.There is barely any text in the book except for the first three to four pages.In the rest, every second page has a hand drawn image.The first…
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The title of the book already says a lot about the content. “Handy Architecture” is the title and already describes that this book explains all the basic things that are needed for architecture. First, the book covers definitions of geometric measurements of planes, surfaces, and buildings. Then it speaks about triangles, quadrilaterals, and polygonal figures….
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Descripción del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de el Escorial – Andres Ximenez General information The title of my book is “Descripción del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de el Escorial”, written by Andrés Ximénez, which automatically describes what the intention of the book is: This book describes the royal monastery of San Lorenzo…