Using Alice was a new experience for me. I easily understood how to search for a word and how to apply a different ‘brain’. What I did not immediately understand was the usage of Alice’s topic. After I got familiar with how Alice works, I started my research using the topic ‘architecture’ and the brain…
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The first book, which was found with the search engine Alice, was called “The Modern Architectural Theory” by Henry Francis Mallgrave. In his historical Survey they discuss idea of the new cities with tall constructions. The thought of a new city is also mentioned in the book of Jaques Perret, with different illustrations of cities…
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My book is called “Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti” by Teofilio Gallacini and it was written in 1767. Because the book focused on the errors of architecture I typed in “errors”, then tried the terms “rules of architecture” and “geometry”. Depending on what search setting I used the results varied from…
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I have started with the topic of architecture and chose Xenotheka as Alice’s Brain. I searched for the word orders. I then also added the words columns and rustication. I tried also different brains, as for example the library of Homer’s friends as well Xenofeminism, Coco and Rem library. The first combination proved to be…
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The book under analysis is a work by Johann Rudolph Feasch, Des Jacobi Barozzi von Vignola Grund Regel. As is clear from the title, it deals with mathematical, structural and perspective rules of architecture. Initially, I started with a search for the title of the book and the author for this new task. It seemed…
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Ich habe mich nochmals mit meinem Buch dell‘architettura von Mario Gioffredo auseinandergesetzt und den Inhalt vertieft. Anschließend habe ich mit der Suche bei Alice angefangen. Ein Kollege hat mir die Suchplattform erklärt und gezeigt, wie sie genau funktioniert, da ich zuerst große Probleme mit der Bedingung hatte. Er hatte die Aufgabe schon gemacht und wusste…
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My book: A book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments, James Gibbs First, I tried to look for something general like “ornament” to be sure, that I will find a book. The problem was that the first option was a book about modern architecture which does not contain any ornaments. So I looked…
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For the exercises of „Friends with an old Book“ I am concerned with the book named „La Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier les Places“ written by François Blondel. So it is quite obvious that I first searched for the word fortification in the Xenotheka library. I became aware of a book called „Architectura militaris nova et…
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First I made a list of key words for the three written parts of my book (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). Amongst these words were mathematics, proportions, heights, distance, etc. but also others such as piers, columns, niches, windows, gates, obelisks, etc. I then started looking up some of these words. Some of them…