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The book Grund Regeln über die fünf Säulen, des Jacobi Barozzi, is about classical orders of architecture. Therefore, I used the words columns and order to type into Alice search engine with architecture as the topic of conversation. I also tried a few different keywords but the outcome was more or less the same. 1….

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Friends with an old book The very first step was to reflect on my previous posts. I had to go back to my book to select the keywords.  Because the author of my book, Pierre Patte, is famous for presenting the first “sectional plan”, I thought that would be my first keyword. However, it led…

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After working for a while with the old book “Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la moderne” by the author Charles-Antonie Jombert and Roland Fréart, I had an idea of finding a similar book with the engines Xenotheka and Alice for my task. First of all, I searched the English name of the book “Parallel of…

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My search started with very general words such as architecture, which made it difficult, as a lot of results show up. I proceeded to search for more precise words used in my book such as column, orders, etc., but my search was again unsuccessful. The final word, that showed me the following results was “civil…

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When I opened Alice to find some books who are related to mine, I’ve used the Xenotheka Library as Alice’s brain, architecture as the topic of the conversation and typed in country houses because my book is about to of the most beautiful country houses of Pliny. The first thing that popped up was Modern Architectural Theory by Mallgrave but when…

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Since the book “Oeuvres d’Architescture” by the author Marie-Joseph Peyer consists largely of pictures, I have tried to describe them in order to find a similar book. However, this did not turn out to be very easy, as it was very difficult to choose terms that describe the book and the pictures it contains. I…

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The first thing that came to my mind to search for in Alice’s brains, was of course the name of my book itself: Exercitationes Vitruvianae. This was quite unpleasant because Alice found zero matches within the Xenotheka library. After some research and trying different words, I found out that with adding just one letter, Alice…

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As I read through the first pages of Boffrands book Livre d’Architecture the part in which he talks about good taste most stood out to me and I was eager to find out more about what different people had to say about what a „good taste“, or taste generally, might be.  So I chose taste…

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The book I chose is called Il nouvo splendore delle fabriche in prospettiva di Roma moderna by Giovanni Battista Falda, which shows the orientations and the type of constructions of buildings in Rome. Therefore, I decided to choose to search the word “orientation” with the help of Alice. At first, I did not type “architecture”…