The book assigned to me is „Lo inganno de gl’occhi“ by Pietro Accolti and picks out as a central theme the deception of our visual perspective, when observing a building or our surroundings. In this article I will focus on some Keywords, which are mentioned in this book. Shading is also a very important part…
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In the first two tasks I learned La pratica di prospettiva is about learning the right way to draw with perspective. The author used architectural elements in order to visualize and describe the correct perspective in different levels of complexity. I deconstructed the Topic of the Book into two conversation Topics. I wanted to find…
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The search on Alice turned out to be more difficult than I first thought. It took me a while to search efficiently for a book that had similarities in subject matter to the book Synopsis architecturae civilis eclecticae by Johann Jacob Schübler. I first had to familiarise myself with the various search filters. For example, I did…
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First, I gave architecture as the element for the topic of conversation. As I typed in again architecture, in the Xenotheka library,more than 10’000 results were recommended to my request. I wanted to narrow them down to ‘only’ 1’000 results by adding system to my already searched architecture topic. But it didn’t help at all….
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To explore AskAlice I started simple and searched up the author of my book (Cours d’architecture – Augustin D’Avile). For the topic I have chosen architect and as Alice’s brain I went with Xenotheka Library. However, the results were not really helpful because the only informative thing I found out is that he and his…
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Before I opened the Ask Alice search engine, I had an image of a factual neutral website in front of me. When I opened Ask Alice, something completely different came out than I expected. The website is much more colorful and playful than I expected. The first thing I had to do was to find…
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Using “Ask Alice” for the first time, I struggled a bit with finding the best way to search for books that connected with “Lucidum prospectivae Speculum” from Paul Heineken. Firstly, I typed in the title of the book with “architecture” as the topic of conversation and the “Xenotheka Library” as Alice’s brain but only got…
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Process My book “Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla” has perspective in drawings as its main theme. Thus, I knew that the first word to search for had to be “perspective”. However, I had to quickly realize that this generates far too many results and especially far too many which do not really have…
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The first book, which was found with the search engine Alice, was called “The Modern Architectural Theory” by Henry Francis Mallgrave. In his historical Survey they discuss idea of the new cities with tall constructions. The thought of a new city is also mentioned in the book of Jaques Perret, with different illustrations of cities…
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My book is called “Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti” by Teofilio Gallacini and it was written in 1767. Because the book focused on the errors of architecture I typed in “errors”, then tried the terms “rules of architecture” and “geometry”. Depending on what search setting I used the results varied from…