The book assigned to me is titled “Archisesto per formar con facilità li cinque ordini d’architettura” by Ottavio Revesi Bruti and has constructing scale drawings of architectural orders as its main theme. I knew right away which terms I need to search for in order to generate the most relevant results. So I adopted the…
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For the book «Oeuvres architecture» by Marie-Joseph Peyer it was rather difficult to find a connection to other books. The reason therefore is that the book consists mostly of pictures regarding different buildings and empty pages. As a result I decided to search for the most concise topics that could be found. At first there nothing could…
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Xenotheka_20 At first I tried searching using the title of the book and the name of the author. However I didn’t find much on the search engine. I decided to take a different approach and use keywords from the book or similar topics to the book. Since our book was a guide for architecture I…
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#21-936-406 #9 I started the Task, rereading my text that I wrote for the Greetings and picking out the most important words. Then I opened Alice, I chosed the Xenotheka Library and as topic of conversation I chosed “architecture”. I began my research with the author’s name: Domenico Fontana. I was interested in how important…
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For the third task of “friends with an old book” as a first step, I tried to read the pages I had chosen for the previous assignments, and being a book by an Italian author I did not find it too difficult to understand the themes and key words (I am a native Italian speaker)….
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For my first finding with my research through Alice I simply used “architecture” as the topic of conversation, the “Xenotheka Library” as the brain and the text “circle sector”. The circle sector is the topic Alexander Andreas dedicated his work “Logometron architecturae militaris Freitagianae” to. The search brought many different results, 85 to be exact….
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It is always intriguing to have to do a new task. On the one hand because we have to use new learning tools and on the other hand because we have to use our sense of analysis for each evaluation.First of all, I wrote down the main themes of my home book, in order to…
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For my book, which is a lexicon I chose to search for other lexicons focusing on architecture. A normal book about an architectural topic wouldn’t have made sense for me, because “vocabularium architecturæ ædificatoriæ” touches on nearly every architectural topic, present in the 18. century. First I searched for the name of my book with…