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…
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This book is about inventions, as the title „Inventioni d’ornamenti d’architettura di Michel Angello Buonaruotti e d’altri“ (Inventions of architectural ornaments by Michel Angello Buonaruotti and others) reveals. The title is the only written information we get about this book. It doesn’t have a list of contents, nor is it organized in chapters or sections….
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In the first two tasks I learned La pratica di prospettiva is about learning the right way to draw with perspective. The author used architectural elements in order to visualize and describe the correct perspective in different levels of complexity. I deconstructed the Topic of the Book into two conversation Topics. I wanted to find…
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The search on Alice turned out to be more difficult than I first thought. It took me a while to search efficiently for a book that had similarities in subject matter to the book Synopsis architecturae civilis eclecticae by Johann Jacob Schübler. I first had to familiarise myself with the various search filters. For example, I did…
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Cours d’architecture is a treatise on architecture by French architect and theorist Jacques-François Blondel. First published in 1771, it was the first architecture textbook published in France, and went through a number of editions and translations over the next several decades. The work was very influential in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly in…
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When you go with your first date, you don’t know what to expect. It could possibly always be difficult to measure whether proceeding get along. You have no idea who have your date will most likely be, and you can’t genuinely tell in the event that they’re going to be thinking about you. On a…