I have started with the topic of architecture and chose Xenotheka as Alice’s Brain. I searched for the word orders. I then also added the words columns and rustication. I tried also different brains, as for example the library of Homer’s friends as well Xenofeminism, Coco and Rem library. The first combination proved to be…
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3. Xenothek
Ich habe mich nochmals mit meinem Buch dell‘architettura von Mario Gioffredo auseinandergesetzt und den Inhalt vertieft. Anschließend habe ich mit der Suche bei Alice angefangen. Ein Kollege hat mir die Suchplattform erklärt und gezeigt, wie sie genau funktioniert, da ich zuerst große Probleme mit der Bedingung hatte. Er hatte die Aufgabe schon gemacht und wusste…
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For the exercises of „Friends with an old Book“ I am concerned with the book named „La Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier les Places“ written by François Blondel. So it is quite obvious that I first searched for the word fortification in the Xenotheka library. I became aware of a book called „Architectura militaris nova et…
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First I made a list of key words for the three written parts of my book (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). Amongst these words were mathematics, proportions, heights, distance, etc. but also others such as piers, columns, niches, windows, gates, obelisks, etc. I then started looking up some of these words. Some of them…
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I first tried to input war as a topic and look for terms like “defence structure” or “architect”, but I wasn’t very successful: the only books I managed to see a link with were “Schrater, 3D History Theory and Aesthetics of the Transpla” and “Twemlow, Sifting the Trash A History of Design Criticism” both books…
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First I typed architecture in “topic of conversation”, chose the Xenotheka library, then searched for “columns, drawings”, as the book assigned to me, Reigle générale d’architecture des cinq manières de colonnes, by Jean Bullant, talks mainly about the five orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Tuscan) and is enriched with many drawings. However, before I could…
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To find similar Books to my Cours d’architecture by Augustin D’Aviler I started my search with Alice by Setting the text to „column-orders“ and the brain to „column“ This lead me directly to my first book wich I find has a strong relation to mine. It is called „Style“ and it is written by Gottfried…
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The words that describe the book well are: problems of architecture, columns, oblique arches, geometric shapes and so on. I first asked Alice about „problems in architecture“ in the architecture library. I then chose problems of blondel as the topic of conversation. When I clicked on “find”, the name Galileo quickly caught my eye. It…
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For my research I wanted to concentrate on the structure of the book more than a similar content. An added difficulty was that the book ‘vocabularium architecturae aedificatoriae’ covers almost every architectural topic – since it is a dictionary. For these reasons I mostly searched for different ‘vocabulariums’ and lexicons/dictionaries instead of specific topics. In…