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Since my assigned book mostly contains detailed drawings of building form interior and exterior perspectives, my objectives when I tried to find related books were mainly to find something which is also filled with pictures and as least text as possible. When opening Alice, I was slightly taken aback by its colourfulness but quickly adapted…

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At the beginning I tried to search with ”perspective theory” under different topics, including “architecture”, “art”, “paint”, “draw” in all brains from Alice. However none of the books were related to the topic I’m concerned with. Then I tried to use “perspective” as the topic as well as the key word in the search bar….

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My old book is about the Dome of the Pantheon in Paris. So when I started to get acquainted with Xenotheka and the Ask Alice platform, I searched for the most obvious keywords first. I started in the Xenotheka library with the words dome and a little later with Pantheon and also Paris. When I…

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I started my search by entering the title of the book “Maniere de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes” and found a quote taken from Aureli in “the possibility of an absolute architecture”, a book in which the author proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social…

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For the book «Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città» by Giovanni Battista Falda it was rather difficult to find a connection to other books. The reason therefore is that the book consists mostly of pictures regarding the fountains in the city of Rome, other water sources in this time and also…

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When I started my search on Alice, I had already some word in mind, that I wanted to search with. Words such as, Public, private, decoration and geometry. All four of them can be read out of the title of my book “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e privati edifici:…

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At first, I was overwhelmed with the enormous possibilities that you have in Ask Alice. So, I had to find a way to narrow my search results down. I used the different Brains and combinations of words. My search words were “architecture, measurement, tool, columns” I was hoping to find a book which also has…

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I have always proceeded by searching for the author and title in Alice and then examining it more closely in Xenotheka. First, I typed in Alice the word ,,importante objects” because it is in the title. Topic of Conversation I always left unchanged, because it is always about architecture. In this search in Alice came…