My old book is called Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura and was the work of the Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. The book is dedicated to the five orders of architecture. To find books connected to my book, I linked Alice’s brain to the Xenotheka library. I challenged myself to find three different types…
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My book is called the Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, it was published in 1764 and written by Robert Adam in English. The book is about the reconstruction of the ruins that the Emperor Diocletian built and the project was executed by the author himself, he published the…
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When I first started my search for similar books to Isaac Ware’s “A complete body of architecture” I was very unsure what to search for. In task 2 I found out, that this book is ten books combined into one, where each one focuses on a different category or element that is related to architecture,…
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I started by rereading my argumentation from last task and looking for words from which I thought, are more or less representative for the whole book. These were construction guide, measurement of constructions, calculation of constructions, roof structures, geometry und architecture handbook. I tried the Xenotheka, the Alberti and Vituvius as well as the architecture…
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The book I am further exploring has the title “Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia”, it is written by Robert Adam. In a previous task, I had a look at the dedication of the book to the king of England. This connection interested me and I decided to find…
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To start the task I first searched some good keywords, which describe my book briefly but precisely. So I came up with words like 5 Orders, Design, Construction and precisely Drawings. So I tried to search “5 orders” as it is the beginning of my book. First I did not really found something useful, more…
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First, I started my research on the Xenotheka platform and just typed in the title of my book: Instrumente zur Architektur. But since the search result was zero, I switched to the Alice website. There I typed in again the title of my book and there the search result was so big I didn’t even…
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When I used Alice to help me find books in the Xenotheka library, I first thought of a few words from the title of my book (Extraordinario libro di architettura from Sebastiano Serlio) and the most obvious from knowing the content. The key word: “extraordinario” unfortunately, didn’t carry any useful results. For my next terms,…
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In my last posts on the blog, I explored the connection between the development of Rome, the Chigi Family and the papacy. I uncovered that Fabio Chigi also known as pope Alexander VII was very interested in the architectural development of Rome and therefore ordered to develop numerous projects for Rome, whereunder the development of…
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1. The first thing I typed into the explore/find field was the whole title from the book by Johann Christoph Bischof: Kurtzgefasste Einleitung zur Perspectiv. As Brain I selected Xenotheka and architecture as topic. Sadly Alice responded with zero results in the explore mode as well as in the find mode. Perhaps Alice responds only if it is in English,…