I started out by picking the Xenotheka library as Alice’s brain. As the topic of conversation, I chose architecture and typed civil architecture into the search bar. I tried both Explore and Find, but I found the Explore button more versatile and more useful in the context of this exercise. I unfortunately was not quite…
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I started my process by using the Xenothheka Library. Since my book is an architectural dictionary, I picked architecture as the topic of conversation and asked Alice to show me dictionaries related to that. I had a better experience using the explore button instead of the find button since it looks for related terms instead…
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„La Pratica di Prospettiva“, written by Lorenzo Sirigatti, wasn’t exactly easy to read, as it’s written in Italian. However, it is a book which is dominated by drawings and illustrations. So I concentrated on these in order to find good keywords. Eventhough I could search my keywords and topics in Xenotheka it was quite difficult…
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First I tried it with the title of my book, i.e. civil architecture. For this I use the topic build.Fortunately, I came across a book by David Le Roy called The Riuns of the most beautiful Monuments of Greece. This book was first published around 1758, which happens to be around the same time as…
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I’ve had directly two different words that I thought of, which I needed to look up. The first word I looked up on Alice was “fortification”. The body I had chosen was Xenotheka. It gave me some nice quotes, which included the word I was looking for, but the themes of the books had nothing…
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My first step was breaking my understanding of the book’s contents down into keywords, following the overview I had gained through task 2. In “De sacris aedificiis a Constantino magno constructis’’, the main topic are churches built by the emperor Constantine the great. The first topic of conversation and the brains used were Architecture and the Architecture Library,…
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Architectura Civilis by Joseph Furttenbach (1628) was still written in the old German writing, which initially caused difficulties because I found it difficult to read the text. So, at first glance, I found very little information. This also made it difficult for me to find keywords to ask Alice about. After reading the book and…
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21-932-850 Since my book is about the five orders of Vitruvius I started with the searching word “five orders of architecture”. For Alice’s brain I chose Xenotheka. The first result that appeared was the book Modern Architectural Theory written by Harry Francis Mallagrave. The website lead me directly to the whole book which has more than 500 pages….
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First I tried to refreshen my memory about the last task. ‚Cours d’architecture‘ is a huge book which contains a lot of information. I was looking for general information about the author of the book, Augustin Charles d’Avigner and the things he generally preached. So my search was more based on books which put him…
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The book, “Cours d’architecture, ou Traité de la décoration, distribution &construction des bâtiments”, written by Blondel, Jacques-François, was meant to be an encyclopedia book to guide architects at that time. The book did not focus on a specific theme but rather covered various topics. Therefore, in the beginning, it was hard to find a particular…