As I started my research on Alice to find related literature for my book, “architecture pratique” I first focused on terms like; practice, handbook, geometry, order, price, material. As the brain, I used the Xenotheka Library to keep the search wide. As the topic of conversation, I used architecture. I noticed that the different terms…
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Task 3 – Xenotheka 98
At the beginning I needed to revisit my old blog post I made about Peyres book “Oeuvres d’Architecture” since I’ve mostly forgotten her words, but not so much her impressive drawings. Firstly, I began with typing in “drawings”. That was a dead end, because I didn’t quite realize that typing out the word wouldn’t get…
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Task 3 – Friends with an old Book – Xenotheka In Les Édifices Antiques De Rome where many roman ruins are measured and drawn in a very detailed manner, and in contrast to many predecessors, in the way they were found on site, one of the ruins which is subject of an in-depth investigation is…
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For the 3rd Task of friends with an old book I used my knowledge about “The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated” by Robert Castell from the second task to search for similar topics in the “Alice” search engine. At first, I searched for the two villas Castell describes in his book, so the one at…
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I started by revisiting my previous tasks and again getting in touch with the book from Alexandre le Blond “explication des termes d’architecture”. It explains architectural terms in form of a dictionary, therefore I came up with the two simple but matching keywords “architectural terms” and “dictionary”. As the topic of conversation I used “architecture”….
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I started this task by going back to the second task and analyzing what the main topic is. I’ve came to the conclusion that I should start the search on Alice with the keywords “perspective” and “drawing instruction”. So I started my research on Alice to find related books for my book with the keywords…
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I started my research for “La Science des Ingenieurs dans la Conduite des Travaux de Fortification et d’Architecture Civil” by Bernard Forest de Belidor in the brain Xenotheka. Interested in the results, I initially inserted the title into the explore/find field, selecting architecture as the topic of conversation. This led to an array of books,…
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I started my search on Alice using architecture as the topic of conversation and exploring the results generated when searching for words like “siege” “fortresses”, hoping to find a book related to architecture used in fortification. I chose these topics because my book “La militare architettura” discusses Pietro Ruggiero’s experience in wars and in the…
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As a first step I watched one of the tutorials because I was kind off confused with all the options I had to feed Alice to get the right result. After that I clicked through the different libraries and looked at the word clouds to find a matching one. My book focused a lot on…
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Das Buch «anderer Versuch seiner architect» von Johann Rudolf Fäsches beinhaltet alte, architektonische Radierungen und Zeichnungen verschiedener antiker Gebäude. Jedes dieser Gebäude wird im Schnitt und im Grundriss dargestellt. In seinen Texten richtet er sich an lehrende Ingenieure und ArchitektInnen. Um ähnliche Bücher in der Alice Suchmaschine zu finden, gab ich Begriffe wie «section», «drawing»,…