The first thing I did was set Alice’s brain to ‘Architecture Library’. Then, I searched for ‘villa design’ because my book by James Malton is a collection of design for rural retreats, such as villas. So, I figured that my search would give me something useful. Even though I got over 200 results, none of…
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From the very first moment, I was fascinated by the incredibly beautiful, detailed drawings of the churches in our book. They had such a convincing effect that I started my conversation with Alice in the course of this task with the topic of architecture and the terms «church» and «drawing». Both of them describe the…
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The first steps of my work consisted of analyzing the book “Theatrum Machinarum Molarium” by Johann Matthias Beyer more deeply and extracting a list of keywords (such as “mill”, “mill order”, “law of mills“, “machine“, “paper mill“, “mill construction”,…). Then it was time to make use of the search engines provided. First I tried working…
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I started my work by analyzing more deeply the book “Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture” by James Gibbs and drawing up a list of keywords (such as “drawing”, “rules”, “fractions“, “architecture“, “five orders“, “proportions“, “ornaments“, “column“,…). In a second part, I started the approach with the “Alice” search engine, divided into three…
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At first, I simply searched the name of the book, “Newes Itinerarium Italiae”. The books that came up had only limited connections or similarities to my book. Therefore, I proceeded to search the contents of the book, to check if they mentioned my book. I did this by searching variations of the title in the…
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Since my book is mainly about public buildings and how they are best implemented structurally, I started my search with this. For this search in “Ask Alice” I used the Xenotheka library. In the context bar I entered the word architecture. With these settings, I used various search terms to find the appropriate books. I…
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Martino Bassi’s “Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura et Perspettiva” are, on the one hand, a polemic against Tibaldi’s work on the Milan Cathedral, but on the other hand, above all, they represent “the most surprising and interesting example of the seriousness with which the position of the point of view in the surface of the painting…
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Given the rather strange and specific nature of the content of my old book I felt there were multiple aspects of the book I could isolate and try to find new books relating to that specific aspect. Since “Della transportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V» is a book about obelisks I thought…
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I began the third task by familiarizing myself with the search engine “Alice”. I entered various search terms that interested me in connection with Sebastiano Serlio, such as “woman”, “sport”, “capital”, “column”, “glass”. I quickly realized that the selection was huge. I tried to choose terms that were not directly associated with Serlio. For example,…
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At first, I wanted to find out if my book or the author where mentioned in other books. I knew that Palladio was a wellknown person, so I started by putting in his name. I realised very quickly, that he was mentioned in a very big number of books. Even the title of his book…