First I wrote down some words, that I thought would describe my Book really well. These were geometry, handbook, construction, elements, architectural manual, problems of structure. I used the “Xenotheka Library” and the “Alberti and Vitruvius” brain from Alice. Alice showed a lot of different search results, what made it difficult to choose which ones…
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Given the fact that my book is a rewritten and edited French version of the 10 books of Vitruvius, it comes at ease that I started my Alice research by typing “architecture” into the “Topic of conversation” bar the word “Vitruvius”, as well as the phrase “10 books of architecture by Vitruvius” into the search…
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I have opened alice and typed the words drawing, structure and French. Afterwards I have gotten several options of books. Alice’s brain is adopted with the library of Shakespeare’s friends. I focused on three different books, who applied every time I searched with a new key word. Firstly, the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Secondly,…
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Researching my befriended book „Studio d’architettura civile“ by Ferdinando Ruggieri wasn’t all that easy at first, because it is majorly a collection of architectural drawings and doesn’t contain much text at all. To get some search results, I had to aim at comparable books, that revolved around architectural elements, ornaments and details, just as they…
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Although the „Ask Alice“ engine works quite self-explaining, I still felt the urge to watch the tutorial from the lecture and on the website again, to use it more efficiently. After doing so, I started to search with word describing the contents of my book “The Villas of the Ancients illustrated” by Robert Castell. I’ve…
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The post consists of a paragraph of at least 300 words where you will: 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. 2. illustrate your findings: discuss which two (or more) books you have…
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Um mich zunächst mit der Funktionsweise von “Xenotheka” und der damit zusammenhängenden Suchmaschine “Alice” vertraut zu machen, habe ich mit einem offensichtlichen Schlagwort, nämlich “Oriental Gardening”, unter der Kategrie “Architecture” begonnen und mir die ersten Treffer angesehen. Dabei waren die Bücher Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory sowie Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture die ersten Anzeigetreffer. Hierbei…
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My book treats on the works of Vincent Scamozzi and the principles he believe should be adopted in a “universal architecture”. In my work with Alice I chose to investigate the idea of “universal architecture” and the Vitruvian five orders which play an important role in the book. My first choice of a brain was…
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At first, I used the entry “le due regole della prospettiva pratica” and alices brain of Xenotheka to find books with similar topics to the book 27 but I only found one result and that was the result of book 27. Secondly, I tried to remember the topics of book 27 that are drawing in…