Because of my book title, I instinctively typed in the term `columns` in the Xenotheca. The first book that was listed for me was an essay on architecture by Laugier. This was published in 1753, sometime after my book. In it, he discusses the `faults` of well-known aspects of Renaissance and post-Renaissance architectural practice. Among…
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The title of François Blondel’s book is « Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places ». In the second task I discussed that the book contains concepts about the fortification of architectural spaces. So, my initial instinct was to use the word “fortification” in Ask Alice. As I expected, many books with similar titles and contents popped up…
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Our book «Vollständige Anweisung, alle Arten von Kirchen wohl anzugehen» written by Leonhard Christoph Sturm has inspired me really. It is fascinating, how detailed he had drawn the churches, which we see in the book. Outside of the drawings, he wrote a very good and clear text with constructions on how we should build a…
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Process It has been so long since the last time working on “Friends with an Old Book”, that I had to go through my old posts, to refresh my memory of Charles Antoin Jombert’s work. Since the full title means something along the lines of “Modern architecture: Building good architecture for all kinds of people”,…
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My assigned book “A Book of Architecture”, written by James Gibbs in 1739, contains multiple sketches, predominantly of churches but also of other buildings, such as villas. The first few pages of this book contain a written text, followed by hundreds of sketches and drawings. To use the search Engine “Alice” properly, I had to…
How Much Wiring Is in a Aircraft?
Airplane wiring is a system of electrical wiring and connectors used to hold power, detailed data, and safety-related info to airplane systems. The number of wiring within a plane may differ depending on the type of airplane, and is operated by simply several elements. It is important to comprehend the function of the wires and…
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First, I started to swim read my book “Del palazzo de’ Cesari. Opera postuma” by Francesco Bianchini once again with the help of archive.org. I was looking for clues to feed Alice with certain key words, names etc. to relate my book to others. Since I already knew that the book was about temples and…
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My old book is called Regola delli cinque ordini d’architectura and has been written by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1562. He was a famous italian author and architect. Firstly, I fed alice brain with the Xenotheka libary. Then I could fill in my search interests. So, I wanted to know which famous architects were…
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Friends with an old book Task 3. Xenotheka La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et miroirs 1612(The perspective, with the reason for shadows and mirrors) In my search for similar books as la perspective, avec la raison des ombres et miroirs, I looked for other books about the perspective and how to use it…
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The book “A Collection of designs for rural retreats, as villas” by James Malton depicts designs of British country houses of the 17th century. He talks about the style of villas and highlights the rejection of Roman and Greek styles. Having that in mind I started searching for books that also focus on this topic….