As explained in the previous tasks, I have a book that consists of pictures except for some subtitles. Obviously, it was not easy to find suitable keywords for Alice. I tried Aurel and Triumph. I got 90 results. One book that caught my eye was Alberti, 10 books of architecture from 1755. “These were monuments…
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After a short time I got an understanding of the search engine Alice. My book consists only of pictures of ornaments. It is called: “Inventioni d’ornamenti d’architettura di Michel Angello Buonaruotti e d’altri dissegnate dal … Conte Carlo Castellamonte in Roma e copiate da me Giovan Francesco Baronscello” by Baroncelli, Gio Francesco. I wrote down…
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The book I was first assigned to is called “Mémoire historique sur le Dôme du Panthéon Français”. As it says in the title it’s a memoire of Jean Baptiste Rondelet who was involved in the construction of the Panthéon. For the new task I tried to search the obvious terms like the title of the…
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In the beginning, I decided to keep Alice’s brain be the same: always the Xenotheka library, because it contains a variety of books from the branch of architecture, which is always the main topic of our books. Obviously, I chose the topic to be architecture. Firstly, I focused on the title of my book “Memoirs…
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L’art d’appareil by Menand is a book strongly relying on hand drawings and precise construction by hand. Therefore, my first words to type into the Alice engine where “hand drawings” and “construction drawings”. A book that showed up multiple times is “the autopoiesis of architecture” by Patrik Schumacher. Besides various complex themes the book also…
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Des fortifications et artifices. Architecture et perspective was written and published by Jacques Perret, in 1601. his work shows that he was learned in modern military science. Perret was active in Savoy until 1575, and probably moved to Paris at the end of the 16th century after he converted to Protestantism. Originally, there were four…
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My book Grand escalier du chateau de versailles is about the great stairways in the Chateau of Versailles. To find books with the same or similar topics, I searched Alice by the keywords “stairs” and “chateau versailles”. Alice proposed a lot of different books, featuring either the topic “stairs” or the topic “chateau versailles” but never the…
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The first key word, I asked Alice to find was “Isaac Ware” in the “Xenotheka Library”- Brain to find if he had been mentioned in other publications. “Elements of Architecture” by Rem Koolhaas (published 2010) caught my eye because it’s contents focus on mostly on similar elements like Ware such as ceilings, roofs, doors, stairs…
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First I looked a little deeper into my book Theatrum machinarum molarium from Johann Matthias Beyer. So that I get a broader spectrum of topics/words to make a wider search. In doiing so, i noticed many more terms like mill construction/architecture, mill order, ship mills, wheel plant/works, mill scaffold/framwork, wind/water/paper mill (typ of mills), machine,…
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Xenotheka_92 The title “Recueil elementaire d’architecture” Translates into the elementary collection of architecture in English. So, for the first book search in Xenotheka Library I typed into Alice: « Architecture Collection » with the topic set to « Architecture ». After scrolling through the first few books, I stumbled upon “Van Eck – Eighteenth Century Architecture II” I downloaded…