My Book (#65) anderer Versuch seiner architect from Johann Rudolph Faesch When I started to find something in Alice, I analyzed my book again. Because the book is full of drawings, illustrations and floorplans and I was not sure what to put in Alice’s brain. So first I tried the word “military architecture” because the…
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First of all I had to learn how this server worked. The truth is that it is a very easy to use server but I think that there are things that could be improved, for example, that the covers of the book appear next to the title of the book. My book is about the…
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First I reread my text from the Greeting and the Argument and marked the most important words, that could work in AskAlice. First I entered Robert Adam (with Alice’s brain: Architecture Library) to look if he wrote any other books or was mentioned in them. There where 201 results so I knew I would have…
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I started the task by first rereading my argument and thus recalling the content of the book. The book “La militare architettura” by Pietro Ruggiero is about military architecture and fortresses, so for my first search I chose the topic of conversation to be “architecture” and I searched for the keyword “fortresses”. Although it had…
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At first, I reread my text where I have analyzed the contents of my assigned book, “Designs of Inigo Jones and others”. The book is filled with pictures and drawings of various architectural elements, such as chimneys, elevations of rooms, gardens, and temples. With this information in mind, I started to search the Xenotheka. With…
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Irina Burau Using the search engine “Alice” with the “Architecture Library” as Alice’s brain and “architecture” as the conversation topic led to multiple dead ends. Keywords like: Perspective, perspective drawing, graphic drawing and Salomon de Caus only led to books about architectural history. The output was heavily based on the conversation topic rather than the…
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For this task I first needed to get used to the new search engine “Alice”. Fortunately, it is very simple and very effective. Almost to effective as I was a bit overwhelmed with all the different results which appeared when I first just searched for the name of my book. Given the very broad range…
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At the beginning, there were some issues working on the Alice platform, not knowing what to start with, what commands to look for to find books that resemble both in terms of content and theme with mine , “Arhitectura” by Gabriel Kramer. Firstly, I chose as the topic of the conversation “architecture”, as Alice’s brain…
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For my first try at working with Alice and the Xenotheka library I immediately choose “architecture” as the topic of conversation. At first, I was not quite sure, what keywords to type into the research engine. Then I figured, why not to start with the title of my book “Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae”. To be honest,…
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To start my research with AliceAsk I chose to try starting with some topics from my book. I entered architecture as a topic, the library Xenotheca as Alice’s brain, and I chose to enter keywords such as modern architecture foundations, stable building, safe building,… Then I tried to enter the name of Jean Martin, who…