At first, I was overwhelmed with the enormous possibilities that you have in Ask Alice. So, I had to find a way to narrow my search results down. I used the different Brains and combinations of words. My search words were “architecture, measurement, tool, columns” I was hoping to find a book which also has…
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I have always proceeded by searching for the author and title in Alice and then examining it more closely in Xenotheka. First, I typed in Alice the word ,,importante objects” because it is in the title. Topic of Conversation I always left unchanged, because it is always about architecture. In this search in Alice came…
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Because of my book title, I instinctively typed in the term `columns` in the Xenotheca. The first book that was listed for me was an essay on architecture by Laugier. This was published in 1753, sometime after my book. In it, he discusses the `faults` of well-known aspects of Renaissance and post-Renaissance architectural practice. Among…
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The title of François Blondel’s book is « Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places ». In the second task I discussed that the book contains concepts about the fortification of architectural spaces. So, my initial instinct was to use the word “fortification” in Ask Alice. As I expected, many books with similar titles and contents popped up…
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My assigned book “A Book of Architecture”, written by James Gibbs in 1739, contains multiple sketches, predominantly of churches but also of other buildings, such as villas. The first few pages of this book contain a written text, followed by hundreds of sketches and drawings. To use the search Engine “Alice” properly, I had to…
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First, I started to swim read my book “Del palazzo de’ Cesari. Opera postuma” by Francesco Bianchini once again with the help of archive.org. I was looking for clues to feed Alice with certain key words, names etc. to relate my book to others. Since I already knew that the book was about temples and…
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My old book is called Regola delli cinque ordini d’architectura and has been written by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1562. He was a famous italian author and architect. Firstly, I fed alice brain with the Xenotheka libary. Then I could fill in my search interests. So, I wanted to know which famous architects were…
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Friends with an old book Task 3. Xenotheka La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et miroirs 1612(The perspective, with the reason for shadows and mirrors) In my search for similar books as la perspective, avec la raison des ombres et miroirs, I looked for other books about the perspective and how to use it…
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The book: «Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti» by Teofilo Gallaccini is a critical piece and tries to expose errors in contemporary architecture, so I used this knowledge to start a conversation with alice about other critical writings and she recommended “Bernini’s Biographies: Critical Essays” by Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Anita Levy, Steven…
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When I first started my exploration, I naturally chose the Architecture Library as Alice’s brain. For the topic of conversation, I settled on Architecture. After I sent Alice the text “villa” and clicked on find I expected to get a lot of search results about books with similar main topics, however, I soon realized that…