It was quite difficult to find a book similar to “A Book of Architecture” by James Gibbs, because the book contains mostly pictures and illustrations of buildings. There is no such topics or themes that I can search on Alice and Xenotheca. So I just started with the search of “James Gibbs” on Alice. By…
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As in the previous tasks I had to work with the book “Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la modern” written by Charles Antoine Jombert and Roland Fréart de Chambray. So i started to exploring Alice’s work and thus the library of Xenotheka. First I wanted to go on on myself, without consulting the first introduction…
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I made my foray at exploring the new search engine Alice and the online library Xenotheke by entering the name of my chosen literature, Specimens of Gothic Architecture. Almost instantaneously, a plethora of search results popped up, and the first that captured my attention was a book titled Late Gothic Architecture-Its evolution, Extinction, and Reception,…
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“Designs of Inigo Jones and others” by Isaac Ware published 1742 A big question mark was written across my face as I read through Task 3. What was my book about again? I just remembered that there was nothing written in it, but “only” a few sketched pages. So my first step was to read…
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Task 3 Friends with an old Book First of all, I entered Problèmes d’architecture in the Alice search engine, since this is the main topic of my book. It came up mainly umbrella terms like problems of technology and knowledge and the ecosystem. These are difficult and critical issues for us nowadays, which also influence…
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In order to find a book related to mine, I thought it was essential to come up with the right few words which would help me narrow down my search. As I have found out from the earlier tasks, my book mainly focuses on the basis of architecture and supplying its readers with a broad…
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I had a rather difficult start getting myself acquainted with AskAlice. For the search in AskAlice I used the Xenotheka library. I began by rereading my Argument from the last task. In that post I often used the words “portal”, “entrance” and “illustration”. In the context bar I entered the word architecture. As for the…
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1.Searching process It was rather difficult to come up with different topics to search on Alice, as I still couldn’t find out a lot about „Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla“. I still think one part of my book is about geometry and the other one about drawing perspectives using geometry. So I chose…