Das mir zugeteilte Werk ist «La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d’architecture civile» von Bernard Forest de Bélidor. Daher habe ich mit naheliegenden Begriffen begonnen. Als Thema habe ich architecture, und als «Brain» Xenotheka Library gewählt. Danach habe ich gezielt Kombinationen aus Wörtern des Buchtitels und aus dem Namen…
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When I arrived on the Ask Alice website, I was a bit caught off guard, so I watched the replay of the first lecture, and immediately everything became clear. So I entered “civil architecture” as a keyword and architecture as the subject of the discussion. Then I decided to wander through Alice’s different brains. In…
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INTRODUCTION Firstly, I think it is very crucial to again give a quick summary of topics that are covered by the book “Theatrum architecturae civilis” written by Charles Philippe Dieussart. Previous research has led me to following findings: The book is divided in three chapters and every chapter is dedicated to its own topic: What…
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My Book (#65) anderer Versuch seiner architect from Johann Rudolph Faesch When I started to find something in Alice, I analyzed my book again. Because the book is full of drawings, illustrations and floorplans and I was not sure what to put in Alice’s brain. So first I tried the word “military architecture” because the…
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With the book assigned to me being “Compendio della Fortificatione” by Alberghetti, It was pretty clear to me that I needed to search for topics that imply the military. So the first few words I typed into alice were fortification, military and architecture, so that alice could link the topics to architecture. I was really…
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First of all I had to learn how this server worked. The truth is that it is a very easy to use server but I think that there are things that could be improved, for example, that the covers of the book appear next to the title of the book. My book is about the…
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First I reread my text from the Greeting and the Argument and marked the most important words, that could work in AskAlice. First I entered Robert Adam (with Alice’s brain: Architecture Library) to look if he wrote any other books or was mentioned in them. There where 201 results so I knew I would have…
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I started the task by first rereading my argument and thus recalling the content of the book. The book “La militare architettura” by Pietro Ruggiero is about military architecture and fortresses, so for my first search I chose the topic of conversation to be “architecture” and I searched for the keyword “fortresses”. Although it had…
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At first, I reread my text where I have analyzed the contents of my assigned book, “Designs of Inigo Jones and others”. The book is filled with pictures and drawings of various architectural elements, such as chimneys, elevations of rooms, gardens, and temples. With this information in mind, I started to search the Xenotheka. With…
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Irina Burau Using the search engine “Alice” with the “Architecture Library” as Alice’s brain and “architecture” as the conversation topic led to multiple dead ends. Keywords like: Perspective, perspective drawing, graphic drawing and Salomon de Caus only led to books about architectural history. The output was heavily based on the conversation topic rather than the…