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…
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The book assigned to me is „The Architecture of Palladio“ by Giacomo Leoni. The book contains the projects in which Palladio wanted the purity and simplicity of classical architecture to be known, both in theory and in practice, and is illustrated with Andrea Palladio’s own drawings. In this article I will focus on some keywords,…
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At the very beginning I almost lost myself on the website of the Xenotheka online library because on the main page there were a couple of very interesting articles about modern japanese architecture that really sparked my interest. After I regained my focus I started my search by doing the obvious. I simply tried to…
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The book assigned to me is „Lo inganno de gl’occhi“ by Pietro Accolti and picks out as a central theme the deception of our visual perspective, when observing a building or our surroundings. In this article I will focus on some Keywords, which are mentioned in this book. Shading is also a very important part…
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Because of the simple fact that my book consists almost only out of drawings, my search on Alice was quite hard. Instead of searching for another book, which also is a collection of architectural drawings, I needed to search for books which discuss the topic of ancient architectural depictions. This way I was still able…