I started by rereading my argumentation from last task and looking for words from which I thought, are more or less representative for the whole book. These were construction guide, measurement of constructions, calculation of constructions, roof structures, geometry und architecture handbook. I tried the Xenotheka, the Alberti and Vituvius as well as the architecture…
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The book I am further exploring has the title “Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia”, it is written by Robert Adam. In a previous task, I had a look at the dedication of the book to the king of England. This connection interested me and I decided to find…
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To start the task I first searched some good keywords, which describe my book briefly but precisely. So I came up with words like 5 Orders, Design, Construction and precisely Drawings. So I tried to search “5 orders” as it is the beginning of my book. First I did not really found something useful, more…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 For the third task of ‘friends with an old book i tried to find the topic which makes the book ‘L’expérience de l’architecture militaire” special or interesting. Of course, as the title already claims, it is about military architecture. But it isn’t only a…
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First, I started my research on the Xenotheka platform and just typed in the title of my book: Instrumente zur Architektur. But since the search result was zero, I switched to the Alice website. There I typed in again the title of my book and there the search result was so big I didn’t even…
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When I used Alice to help me find books in the Xenotheka library, I first thought of a few words from the title of my book (Extraordinario libro di architettura from Sebastiano Serlio) and the most obvious from knowing the content. The key word: “extraordinario” unfortunately, didn’t carry any useful results. For my next terms,…
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In my last posts on the blog, I explored the connection between the development of Rome, the Chigi Family and the papacy. I uncovered that Fabio Chigi also known as pope Alexander VII was very interested in the architectural development of Rome and therefore ordered to develop numerous projects for Rome, whereunder the development of…
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My first step in researching possibly related books in the xenotheka with Askalice was to take a look at my previous work on Wendel Dietterlin’s Architectura. I began by searching very simple and broad terms. Door, entrance, and portal and their respective plurals were my first ideas. The term entrances lead me to quickly discover…
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There is very little information at first glance on Livre d’architecture by Boffrand, which led to initial difficulties in finding keywords to ask Alice about. However, after reading into the book and interpretations of it e.g. by Van Eck in Eighteenth-Century Architecture, I discovered the book’s and authors’ close link to the concept of Architecture…
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1. The first thing I typed into the explore/find field was the whole title from the book by Johann Christoph Bischof: Kurtzgefasste Einleitung zur Perspectiv. As Brain I selected Xenotheka and architecture as topic. Sadly Alice responded with zero results in the explore mode as well as in the find mode. Perhaps Alice responds only if it is in English,…