Friends with an old Book – Le anitchità romane, Giovanni Piranesi I chose the book “Art in Theory” by Harrison Wood Gaiger because I was trying to find a connection and comparison between the Roman architecture that Piranesi describes and depicts and the Greek architecture. The book refers to the history of architecture. I used…
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Xentotheka_18 Elio Bysäth 21-919-519 I find «Ask Alice» a really interesting concept. Since Xenotheka is a huge collection of books a search machine like ask Alice is essential to utilize and navigate this body of books. To better understand Alice and maximize its potential I first looked at the provided YouTube tutorials explaining how Alice…
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1. describe your process: write about the words you have chosen, the type of ‘brains’ you have adopted in Alice, and the stages of your search, including possible initial dead ends. I have chosen one of the several times mentioned supertitles, the proportions of lines and architecture in general, for my research and compared it…
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Process Considering the topic ‘architecture’ is a little to simple I tried starting other conversations with brains like ‘measurement’ ‘stairs’ ‘window’. With these searches I wasn’t really satisfied so I changed the topic back to architecture. After all my book describing modern architecture, it seemed reasonable. The search term that led me to my first…
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Augustin d’Aviler’s “Cours d’Architecture” discusses the 5 Orders by Vignola. While the 5 Orders are the main focus for d’Aviler’s comment, the greater value of his book is how he further developed these 5 Orders into more modern architecture. TASK 1 Process: When researching the connections that “Cours d’Architecture” has with other similar books I…
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It’s my first time to use Alice and Xenotheka. So I took my time to watch the brief presentation on the first day of class HS21 and the tutorial Videos on Youtube about Alice. In general I think it’s very nice that we get to know many new platforms and visit different libraries online or…
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At first I tried to summarise my knowledge of the themes of my book. I consulted my text for the Task 2 to refreshen my memories of the contents of the book. I wrote down the overall theme of perspective and learning its principles. From there on I tried to come up with different words…
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The book I was assigned to at the beginning of the semester is called: “Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils”, by William Chambers. So I continue my research on that book, going into Xenotheka and the search engine Alice. I start with thinking about what I should type in first. The title of the book is…
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Arianna Melchiorri 21-938-022 Book that I’m frien with: ANDERER VERSUCH SEINER ARCHITEKT As I explained in the previous tasks, in my book there are very few text paragraphs. Instead, it is full of images, or better, drawings. From this point I decided to search books that are similar to mine depending mainly on their content…
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I have chosen the following themes in my book “lo inganno degli occhi” written in 1625 by Pietro Accolti. Perspective Geometry Theories Architecture Representation Drawings Painters Evolution Critics To find some related books I have used these “Alice’s brains“: Architecture’s library Xenotheka’s library. After my researches, I chose two books, “This thing called Theory” written…