As I started my research on Alice to find related literature for my book, “architecture pratique” I first focused on terms like; practice, handbook, geometry, order, price, material. As the brain, I used the Xenotheka Library to keep the search wide. As the topic of conversation, I used architecture. I noticed that the different terms…
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At the beginning I needed to revisit my old blog post I made about Peyres book “Oeuvres d’Architecture” since I’ve mostly forgotten her words, but not so much her impressive drawings. Firstly, I began with typing in “drawings”. That was a dead end, because I didn’t quite realize that typing out the word wouldn’t get…
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Task 3 – Friends with an old Book – Xenotheka In Les Édifices Antiques De Rome where many roman ruins are measured and drawn in a very detailed manner, and in contrast to many predecessors, in the way they were found on site, one of the ruins which is subject of an in-depth investigation is…
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Zu Beginn der Aufgabe fiel es mir schwer, passende Bücher zu finden. Wenn ich Begriffe wie «Die fünf Ordnungen», «Säule» oder «Decor» usw. suchte, kam ich auf etliche Bücher und Literatur, die sich immer mit ähnlichen Fragen zu Proportionen und Gestaltung auseinandersetzen. Als ich dann, durch die zufällige Eingabe ähnlicher Begriffe, auf eine Sammlung von Wettbewerbseingaben bedeutender Gebäude aus den 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderten stiess,…
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For the 3rd Task of friends with an old book I used my knowledge about “The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated” by Robert Castell from the second task to search for similar topics in the “Alice” search engine. At first, I searched for the two villas Castell describes in his book, so the one at…
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I started by revisiting my previous tasks and again getting in touch with the book from Alexandre le Blond “explication des termes d’architecture”. It explains architectural terms in form of a dictionary, therefore I came up with the two simple but matching keywords “architectural terms” and “dictionary”. As the topic of conversation I used “architecture”….
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I started this task by going back to the second task and analyzing what the main topic is. I’ve came to the conclusion that I should start the search on Alice with the keywords “perspective” and “drawing instruction”. So I started my research on Alice to find related books for my book with the keywords…
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First, I started with the word “Architecture” in the body and wanted to find discussions on “civil architecture”. It was interesting, as Alice guided me to Comedies and Plays and books on Ethics. I think it had to do with the word “civil”. I then had to figure out what civil architecture means in the…
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I started my research for “La Science des Ingenieurs dans la Conduite des Travaux de Fortification et d’Architecture Civil” by Bernard Forest de Belidor in the brain Xenotheka. Interested in the results, I initially inserted the title into the explore/find field, selecting architecture as the topic of conversation. This led to an array of books,…
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The treatise of Camillo Agrippa is a piece of work imagining the transfer of an antique Obelisk to the Piazza San Pietro. The book is all about the possible techniques on how to move the Obelisk and not about the context. Agrippa doesn’t explain anything about the Obelisk and it’s history, neither does he mention…