Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 At a started the assignment I wondered what topics I should begin with. I decided to brainstorm a little. The first step I took was write the whole title and choosing some of the words. For example the obvious one in this case would…
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My book is called „Neuherfürgegebene Kriegsarchitectur“ and is about new ideas of fortress architecture and war buildings. When I used Alice for the first time, to find books that are somehow related to my book, I first thought of key words to use. Since my book is about war, I tried this key word first….
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The research for this task was quite complicated in the beginning, because I tried to use Alice in a “learning-by-doing” way, and didn’t fully get the system at first. After experimenting a bit and changing the topics, brains, etc. I developed a work flow and was able to do my research more precisely. I mainly used…
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First I wrote down some words, that I thought to stand in connection with the topic of my book: Fortification, attack, defense, warfare, attack, etc. Next I had planned to type them into Alice and get my results. Easy as that. But I had some trouble figuring Alice out. It took me a while but…
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Through this new task, I was able to familiarise myself with Xenotheka’s “Ask Alice” search machine. To do so, I chose 4 words that summarize my book “Reigle Générale d’Architecture des cinq manières de colonnes” by Jean Bullant, namely: architecture, columns, drawings and orders. The aim was to look for works related to my book,…
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The previous task gave me the basis for this task, in order to make good use of the Xenotheka digital library, I thought about which themes stood out in my book “Le Theatre de l’Art de Charpentier”. As I found out in the second assignment, it is about the art of the carpenter. The wooden…
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First I looked for the book I had mentioned in the second task , which Piranesi referenced to in his book. Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce Body : Xenotheka Library & Body: Architecture library . Which didn’t bring me much Though the name of the author did bring interesting information about…
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Before starting the research, I had to first understand the machinations of “Ask Alice”. I am still not sure how exactly she works but what I found out right away is, that the title of my book is too long since it did not yield and closely related results on my first trial. The heat…
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First I wrote down some words, that I thought would describe my Book really well. These were geometry, handbook, construction, elements, architectural manual, problems of structure. I used the “Xenotheka Library” and the “Alberti and Vitruvius” brain from Alice. Alice showed a lot of different search results, what made it difficult to choose which ones…
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