Friends with an old Book – Task 3 The Book „Lo inganno de gl’occhi“ by Pietro Accolti mainly talks about the simple laws of perspective, light and shade and geometry. So those Keywords were also the ones i used for this exercise. My first topic was light and shade. This is an extremely wide and…
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Task 3 – Topographia Gallilae in the Alice search engine. Using Alice’s architecture library brain when searching for the terms „france 1665 architecture“ the search engine delivered some useful results. In his book „the architectural capriccio“, the author Lucien Steil describes how the works of the french painter Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665) drew his…
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I started out by picking the Xenotheka library as Alice’s brain. As the topic of conversation, I chose architecture and typed civil architecture into the search bar. I tried both Explore and Find, but I found the Explore button more versatile and more useful in the context of this exercise. I unfortunately was not quite…
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I started my process by using the Xenothheka Library. Since my book is an architectural dictionary, I picked architecture as the topic of conversation and asked Alice to show me dictionaries related to that. I had a better experience using the explore button instead of the find button since it looks for related terms instead…
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„La Pratica di Prospettiva“, written by Lorenzo Sirigatti, wasn’t exactly easy to read, as it’s written in Italian. However, it is a book which is dominated by drawings and illustrations. So I concentrated on these in order to find good keywords. Eventhough I could search my keywords and topics in Xenotheka it was quite difficult…
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To begin my research with the search engine Alice, I defined „Alberti and Vitruvius Library“ as the brain. The first topic of conversation is plain and simple: architecture. As the search term I used „ancient architecture“ because Vitruvius focuses on the architecture of those who came before. This combination led me to the first comparison:…
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First I tried it with the title of my book, i.e. civil architecture. For this I use the topic build.Fortunately, I came across a book by David Le Roy called The Riuns of the most beautiful Monuments of Greece. This book was first published around 1758, which happens to be around the same time as…
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I’ve had directly two different words that I thought of, which I needed to look up. The first word I looked up on Alice was “fortification”. The body I had chosen was Xenotheka. It gave me some nice quotes, which included the word I was looking for, but the themes of the books had nothing…
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Friends with an old Book Task 2 Universae Architecturae Civilis Elementa, Christian Rieger, 1756 Universae Architecturae Civilis Elementa is a book that was published in 1756 by Christian Rieger. It was written in Latin at the time and covers civil architecture in about 300 pages. Christian Rieger was able to print his book with the…
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The book of Joseph Fruttenbach, Architectura civilis, is quite a hard read because of it’s old language. So reading the book was not easy from the beginning, but it was possible after all. What the book is about was clear already, but for me the keywords were important. Fruttenbach writes about how certain buildings, especially…