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”…
Friends with an old Book
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As I started the task, I decided that I wanted to use two different brain types from Alice. First, I chose the brain Xenotheka library due to its variety of books according to the topics of architecture which concedes with my book for the tasks of Friends with an old book. As second brain type…
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The book „Opera di Francesco Borromino“ written by Sebastiano Giannini contains a lot of illustrations and almost no text. In order that there are so many options to choose words for the searching machine Alice I firstly rewatched the pictures in the book and reread my analysis from the past tasks. With the main informations…
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As explained in the previous tasks, I have a book that consists of pictures except for some subtitles. Obviously, it was not easy to find suitable keywords for Alice. I tried Aurel and Triumph. I got 90 results. One book that caught my eye was Alberti, 10 books of architecture from 1755. “These were monuments…
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After a short time I got an understanding of the search engine Alice. My book consists only of pictures of ornaments. It is called: “Inventioni d’ornamenti d’architettura di Michel Angello Buonaruotti e d’altri dissegnate dal … Conte Carlo Castellamonte in Roma e copiate da me Giovan Francesco Baronscello” by Baroncelli, Gio Francesco. I wrote down…
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The book I was first assigned to is called “Mémoire historique sur le Dôme du Panthéon Français”. As it says in the title it’s a memoire of Jean Baptiste Rondelet who was involved in the construction of the Panthéon. For the new task I tried to search the obvious terms like the title of the…