Category: Xenotheka

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As a first attempt, I tried to find books related to architecture and Paul Heineken. So I used Xenotheka Libraryas “Alice’s brain”, as Topic of conversation architecture and as search I typed: Paul Heineken. I got 10,000 results, but I didn’t really know how to approach them. With the further use of Alice, I realized that I would not…

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At the start I began by extracting the central words of my analysis. I settled on parallel and modern. Then I inserted them in different configurations and also modified as adjectives, plurals etc.. As the brain I used the architecture library. But this wasn’t the right choice because I only got results which interpreted the…

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The first Word(s) I’ve chosen was simply the name of the author of my Book – Ermenegildo Pini. In my first attempt, the topic of conversation was of course architecture, whilst using the Xenotheka Library’s Brain. This first search attempt, resulted in a in just one result, that came really close to what I was…

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At the beginning I tried to search with ”perspective theory” under different topics, including “architecture”, “art”, “paint”, “draw” in all brains from Alice. However none of the books were related to the topic I’m concerned with. Then I tried to use “perspective” as the topic as well as the key word in the search bar….

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My old book is about the Dome of the Pantheon in Paris. So when I started to get acquainted with Xenotheka and the Ask Alice platform, I searched for the most obvious keywords first. I started in the Xenotheka library with the words dome and a little later with Pantheon and also Paris. When I…

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For the book «Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città» by Giovanni Battista Falda it was rather difficult to find a connection to other books. The reason therefore is that the book consists mostly of pictures regarding the fountains in the city of Rome, other water sources in this time and also…

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When I started my search on Alice, I had already some word in mind, that I wanted to search with. Words such as, Public, private, decoration and geometry. All four of them can be read out of the title of my book “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e privati edifici:…