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I first tried to input war as a topic and look for terms like “defence structure” or “architect”, but I wasn’t very successful: the only books I managed to see a link with were “Schrater, 3D History Theory and Aesthetics of the Transpla” and “Twemlow, Sifting the Trash A History of Design Criticism” both books…

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First I typed architecture in “topic of conversation”, chose the Xenotheka library, then searched for “columns, drawings”, as the book assigned to me, Reigle générale d’architecture des cinq manières de colonnes, by Jean Bullant, talks mainly about the five orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Tuscan) and is enriched with many drawings. However, before I could…

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To find similar Books to my Cours d’architecture by Augustin D’Aviler I started my search with Alice by Setting the text to „column-orders“ and the brain to „column“ This lead me directly to my first book wich I find has a strong relation to mine. It is called „Style“ and it is written by Gottfried…

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The words that describe the book well are: problems of architecture, columns, oblique arches, geometric shapes and so on.  I first asked Alice about „problems in architecture“ in the architecture library. I then chose problems of blondel as the topic of conversation. When I clicked on “find”, the name Galileo quickly caught my eye. It…

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The book „Opera di Francesco Borromino“ written by Sebastiano Giannini is full of illustrations and no text. In order to find suiting books with the help of Alice I kept her brain with Xenotheka Library and as a topic of conversation i used architecture. Because Sebastiano Gianninis book has almost no writing, i really had…

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For my research I wanted to concentrate on the structure of the book more than a similar content. An added difficulty was that the book ‘vocabularium architecturae aedificatoriae’ covers almost every architectural topic – since it is a dictionary. For these reasons I mostly searched for different ‘vocabulariums’ and lexicons/dictionaries instead of specific topics. In…

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In the search of books related to the “Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes” of the French architect Pierre Le Muet I tried initially to use as search inputs the name of the book and the author. These two keywords didn’t bring to many results. Therefore, I tried to find something related to…

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The book Grund Regeln über die fünf Säulen, des Jacobi Barozzi, is about classical orders of architecture. Therefore, I used the words columns and order to type into Alice search engine with architecture as the topic of conversation. I also tried a few different keywords but the outcome was more or less the same. 1….

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Friends with an old book The very first step was to reflect on my previous posts. I had to go back to my book to select the keywords.  Because the author of my book, Pierre Patte, is famous for presenting the first “sectional plan”, I thought that would be my first keyword. However, it led…