I chose to search for quite specific words in Alice, because Vitruvius is the general base of architectural literature and it has something in common with almost every historical book about architecture. So to search for keywords like „the orders“ or greek/roman architecture would be quite boring. I used the phrases „military design is“, and…
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The book “Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque” contains mostly drawings and just few words. Therefor was it quite hard to start searching for keywords. So, I made a short list with words that describe what is shown in the book List: -Rossi -Temple -Illustration -Rome The keyword “Rossi” did not end in useful results….
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Friends with an old Book – Le anitchità romane, Giovanni Piranesi Xenotheka First, I familiarized myself with the ‘Ask Alice’ search engine by exploring the different bodies in Alice’s brain. Then I selected the Xenotheka library and decided on two terms I wanted to investigate. My book, Le Antichità Romane, was about Roman architecture. This…
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Friends with an old Book – Le anitchità romane, Giovanni Piranesi I chose the book “Art in Theory” by Harrison Wood Gaiger because I was trying to find a connection and comparison between the Roman architecture that Piranesi describes and depicts and the Greek architecture. The book refers to the history of architecture. I used…
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Xentotheka_18 Elio Bysäth 21-919-519 I find «Ask Alice» a really interesting concept. Since Xenotheka is a huge collection of books a search machine like ask Alice is essential to utilize and navigate this body of books. To better understand Alice and maximize its potential I first looked at the provided YouTube tutorials explaining how Alice…
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For this third exercise I used the following comparison words: Obelisk, Rome, Christianity, symbol of power and obelisk in Rome I entered these search terms into Alice using the Xenotheka Library brain. I came across two books. With the search term obelisk I came across the book by Rem Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture. The search term…
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1. describe your process: write about the words you have chosen, the type of ‘brains’ you have adopted in Alice, and the stages of your search, including possible initial dead ends. I have chosen one of the several times mentioned supertitles, the proportions of lines and architecture in general, for my research and compared it…
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Process Considering the topic ‘architecture’ is a little to simple I tried starting other conversations with brains like ‘measurement’ ‘stairs’ ‘window’. With these searches I wasn’t really satisfied so I changed the topic back to architecture. After all my book describing modern architecture, it seemed reasonable. The search term that led me to my first…
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Augustin d’Aviler’s “Cours d’Architecture” discusses the 5 Orders by Vignola. While the 5 Orders are the main focus for d’Aviler’s comment, the greater value of his book is how he further developed these 5 Orders into more modern architecture. TASK 1 Process: When researching the connections that “Cours d’Architecture” has with other similar books I…
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It’s my first time to use Alice and Xenotheka. So I took my time to watch the brief presentation on the first day of class HS21 and the tutorial Videos on Youtube about Alice. In general I think it’s very nice that we get to know many new platforms and visit different libraries online or…