At first I tried to summarise my knowledge of the themes of my book. I consulted my text for the Task 2 to refreshen my memories of the contents of the book. I wrote down the overall theme of perspective and learning its principles. From there on I tried to come up with different words…
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The book I was assigned to at the beginning of the semester is called: “Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils”, by William Chambers. So I continue my research on that book, going into Xenotheka and the search engine Alice. I start with thinking about what I should type in first. The title of the book is…
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Arianna Melchiorri 21-938-022 Book that I’m frien with: ANDERER VERSUCH SEINER ARCHITEKT As I explained in the previous tasks, in my book there are very few text paragraphs. Instead, it is full of images, or better, drawings. From this point I decided to search books that are similar to mine depending mainly on their content…
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I have chosen the following themes in my book “lo inganno degli occhi” written in 1625 by Pietro Accolti. Perspective Geometry Theories Architecture Representation Drawings Painters Evolution Critics To find some related books I have used these “Alice’s brains“: Architecture’s library Xenotheka’s library. After my researches, I chose two books, “This thing called Theory” written…
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To find a particularly relevant book in relation to my book I sent many texts to Alice. I started with the topic of conversation: “Handbook”, as it seems important to me, that this book was specifically written to be used. The first text I sent to her was: “designers and craftsmen”, because the book is…
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On the first page de Neufforge writes that in his book he has many studies about the orders of architecture. So, my first thought was to search for orders with the conversation topic architecture. I set Alice’s brain to the Xenotheka. Against my expectation I also found a lot of books about modern architecture that…
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I started by rereading the description of my book I had written for the second task. I picked out some key words I was particularly interested in looking up or thought relevant to James Gibbs literature and therefore interesting to research. The first was “Drawing in a more exact and easy matter”. I wondered whether…
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Pietro Santo Bartoli – Colona Traiana eretta dal Senato I started with the most important word of my book: column as the topic of the conversation. Alice’s brain is in my search process the Xenotheka Library. Another word that is important is architecture and also Trajan, the Roman emperor. I wanted to find an old…
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I have not used Alice before, so I did not know that one must change the settings for best results and that Alice does not have a ‘default brain’. My book is about designs of the Chinese culture in the 18th century. Therefore, the first word I chose was pretty straightforward: “Chinese”. Now, because I…
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A search for similar books to a fully ‘illustrated’ or most probably etched book is quite difficult. However since I know a few aspects when thinking about this book I tried to search in those areas. In my first search I simply put the author’s name ‘Pietro Santi Bartoli’, the theme ‘design’ and Xenotheka library…