If you’re married, you might consider how often does the average betrothed couple have sex. Married people are more likely to have sex than single people. There are many factors that may affect sexual acts. Some of them are time, relationship, and health. Having sex regularly is actually linked to better physical and emotional health….
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Based on the title of the book (“Elementos de toda la architectura civil : con las mas singulares observaciones de los modernosimpressos en latin”) as well as titles of some selected chapters, I chose the following words for the exploration on the search engine Alice: Words selected from the title: – civil architecture – elements…
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The book I am working with, “Dell’Architettura” by Mario Gioffredo is written in Italian and contains many drawings and little text. Since I unfortunately do not understand Italian, I have taken my search terms mainly from the drawings. The book shows many drawings of columns and ornaments and their mathematical backgrounds, which is why the…
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The book I have is called “Insignium Romae templorum” written by “Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi”. I took various steps to narrow down the search for compareable book with the help of Alice. First I typed in the name of my book, but it didn’t lead to anything. My book has it focus on architectural buildings…
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As a first step, I went to reread my text of task 2 (Argument) and made a list of the words that recurred most often, such as: “cinque ordini”, “proporzioni”, “Michel Sanmicheli”, “colonne”, “disegni”,… I set as topic of conversation: architecture, and as Alice’s brain: Xenotheka Library. As first word I typed the first part…
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1. Process The book (Theatrum Architecturae Civilis – Charles Philippe Dieussart) is roughly divided into three parts: Part 1: • Definition of architecture • Composition of architecture • Material foundations Part 2: • Column lessons from six model Renaissance architects • Column orders Part 3: • Proportion – of rooms, stairs, windows • Explanation of…
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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…