As a first step, I looked again at my images that I selected from the first task. After that i sarted to type in some words into Alice and looked for a fitting quote. The first word i typed in was “drawing” because in our book there were a lot of them. The first quote…
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To do my research for the Friends with an Old Book assignment, I used the AskAlice search engine. I used keywords that I got to know because of the last assignment.First of all, I decided to use the words “illustrations villa” for my search. By chance I came across the book “The Art and Architecture…
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As I started my research on Alice to find related books for my book, “perspectiva pictorum et architectorum” by Andrea Pozzo, I first focused on the most obvious term perspective. Also as the brain I used the Xenotheka Library to keep the search as wide as possible. As the topic of conversation, I used architecture….
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For my first search on Alice I chose “Xenotheka” as brain and as topic of conversation I choose of course “architecture“. For my first search I have chosen the words “Les Plans Et Les Descriptions de Deux Des Plus Belles Maisons” as they are the title and the main topic of my book, so I…
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The first word that I asked Alice, using the “Xenotheka Library” brain was “mistake” which I think is the main theme of our old book. The first thing of the ten thousand outputs that Alice put out was a Book about Schopenhauer and the Aesthetics of Creativity. As I didn’t see a direct connection to…
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Della architettura – Giueseppe Viola Zanini At first I thought that the topic of the conversation with architecture would be obvious and that I should rather look for something else. So, I searched for typical architectural things like… pillars, measurement etc. But I was a bit confused with the results. For this reason, I switched…
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The book Synopsis architecturae civilis eclecticae from Johann Jacob Schübler is filled with tables that he created himself and various sections and floorplans, which he discusses in the course of the book. The very long title of the book, which I decided to shorten here, reveals a lot about the content of Schübler’s book. Consequently, I searched for…
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I chose to search for quite specific words in Alice, because Vitruvius is the general base of architectural literature and it has something in common with almost every historical book about architecture. So to search for keywords like „the orders“ or greek/roman architecture would be quite boring. I used the phrases „military design is“, and…
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The book “Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque” contains mostly drawings and just few words. Therefor was it quite hard to start searching for keywords. So, I made a short list with words that describe what is shown in the book List: -Rossi -Temple -Illustration -Rome The keyword “Rossi” did not end in useful results….
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Friends with an old Book – Le anitchità romane, Giovanni Piranesi Xenotheka First, I familiarized myself with the ‘Ask Alice’ search engine by exploring the different bodies in Alice’s brain. Then I selected the Xenotheka library and decided on two terms I wanted to investigate. My book, Le Antichità Romane, was about Roman architecture. This…