To find a particularly relevant book in relation to my book I sent many texts to Alice. I started with the topic of conversation: “Handbook”, as it seems important to me, that this book was specifically written to be used. The first text I sent to her was: “designers and craftsmen”, because the book is…
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On the first page de Neufforge writes that in his book he has many studies about the orders of architecture. So, my first thought was to search for orders with the conversation topic architecture. I set Alice’s brain to the Xenotheka. Against my expectation I also found a lot of books about modern architecture that…
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Pietro Santo Bartoli – Colona Traiana eretta dal Senato I started with the most important word of my book: column as the topic of the conversation. Alice’s brain is in my search process the Xenotheka Library. Another word that is important is architecture and also Trajan, the Roman emperor. I wanted to find an old…
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I have not used Alice before, so I did not know that one must change the settings for best results and that Alice does not have a ‘default brain’. My book is about designs of the Chinese culture in the 18th century. Therefore, the first word I chose was pretty straightforward: “Chinese”. Now, because I…
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A search for similar books to a fully ‘illustrated’ or most probably etched book is quite difficult. However since I know a few aspects when thinking about this book I tried to search in those areas. In my first search I simply put the author’s name ‘Pietro Santi Bartoli’, the theme ‘design’ and Xenotheka library…
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As in the previous tasks I had to work with the book “Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la modern” written by Charles Antoine Jombert and Roland Fréart de Chambray. So i started to exploring Alice’s work and thus the library of Xenotheka. First I wanted to go on on myself, without consulting the first introduction…
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“Designs of Inigo Jones and others” by Isaac Ware published 1742 A big question mark was written across my face as I read through Task 3. What was my book about again? I just remembered that there was nothing written in it, but “only” a few sketched pages. So my first step was to read…
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Task 3 Friends with an old Book First of all, I entered Problèmes d’architecture in the Alice search engine, since this is the main topic of my book. It came up mainly umbrella terms like problems of technology and knowledge and the ecosystem. These are difficult and critical issues for us nowadays, which also influence…