For this task I needed to adjust firstly with Alice and how to use her right. At first I tried to find things about France in the 17th century because that is a big topic in Martin Zeillers book. I received many french authors In my first attempt and in particular books about the history…
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I looked for words which not only came across the book multiple times but also hold an architectnical meaning. I tried to use the words with the original language which is french. Words like jardin, chateau, décoration, maisons de plaisance and edifices caught my attention. I used the brain of Xenotheka so I could find…
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I started my research by looking up several key words of the book I had already gotten to know in the previous weeks. The title of that book was „De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance et de la Décoration des Édifices en Général“ by J. F. Blondel. As I searched for „maison de plaisances“,…
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I started to search with multiple combination of words, each time clicking on “explore” and then “find” : art, fortifications, war, universal art of fortifications, drawing… I did get decent results but nothing very relevant enough really. After a few more attempts, I then input the following words : “fortifications” and “treatise”. I wanted to…
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My book 《Newes Itinerarium Italie》 is a travel guide of Italy back in 17th century written by Joseph Furttenbach. According to the author the book should be read as a travel literature because it also describes the country’s morals and customs, spiritual and political and buildings that are worth seeing. The book also contains some…
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The book which was assigned to me bears the title “Delle Basiliche Antiche”, written by Enea Arnaldi. Using the Xenotheka library search engine “Ask Alice”, I devoured myself to seek relations of this book and its topics to other books in the library. Personally, I wanted to grasp a deeper understanding of the term “basilica”…
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At first, it was quite difficult to narrow down the sources and works, that could be of use for a good analysis. Just after a while, and various attempts of typing in Alice’s brain the right libraries – interesting topics started to appear. For the first one, I have chosen the “Xenotheka Library” for Alices’s…
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#21-957-295 #40 First of all, I reread my text of the task Argument and highlighted the most meaningful passages and words, so that I have a good overview of my text. The number of words that underline the content of the book has turned out to be rather small compared to the text length. This…
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„Inventions of architectural ornaments by Michel Angello Buonaruotti and others“ is a book that only consists illustrations. There’s no theory written down. I know that that book is about inventions and about ornaments – that’s what the title is telling me – but from the illustrations I only get my subjective impression. At the same…
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The book I was assigned is “Architectura hydraulica, oder: Anleitung zu denen Brunnenkünsten”.At first I started looking for associations with the author’s name: Caspar Walter, but even with different search methods and through the various bookshops I could not find anything interesting.i then moved on to searching for keywords related to the topics covered in…