The title of the book I received is entitled: Reigle générale d’architecture des cinq manière de colonnes : à scavoir, tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinth et composite: book enriched of several others, with the example of the antique. The title is very revealing. Its author, Jean Bullant, talks about the columns and describes them in particular. Furthermore,…
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Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes Pierre Le Muet The full title of the book is “Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes” which means the way of building for every sort of people. From the title it is clear that the topic of the book is architecture and that it is…
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“Logometron architecturae militaris Freitagianae” or in german “Kunstmass der Freitagischen Bevestigung“ is written by Andreas Alexander in 1665. The book is written in german while the title is in latin. As Alexander was working as an architect, he dedicated this work to architecture. More specificly on the matter of circle sector: The part of a circle enclosed…
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The title of the book is: “Architectura militaris”, written by Andreas Cellarius in 1645. It was written in German and has the old style of writing. This book is about military construction in early times in Europe. In other words, about the fortifications and how they are built. The book is structured in four large…
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Archisesto per formar con facilità li cinque ordini d’architettura : con altri particolari intorno la medesma professione / del signor Ottavio Revesi Bruti, gentilhuomo vicentino, written by Ottavio Revesi Bruti is an architectural textbook, which shows how to make and use an archisesto , a proportional compass invented by the author, based on Galileo Galilei’s geometrical…
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The title offers a clue what the author wants to say. It seems like the book is a manual for building a house the right way. The drawings and pictures in the book reveal big projects which suits the bourgeoisie but not the lower classes. The houses look expensive and must be designed for a…
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The full name of my book is „The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books“. When you read the title for the first time, you can imagine that it is about architecture, of course, but specified in someones style. So from a title like this one here I would expect theoretical explanations with a lot of…
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The Architecture of A. Palladio Task: 2. Argument The title of the books tells us that it is a summary of four books. It tells us something about the architecture realized by A. Palladio. There is no table of contents. Although there is a page where there is a short description of what books are…
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Architectura Militaris As you read the title you can clearly understand the target of the book, it might be nuanced, as in is this a more historical or practical approach to the thematic but from the ground on it is very clear we are reading a book about military architecture. The book itself has no…
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The titel of the book is de gli obelischi di Roma. With the “obelischi” is meant a pointed columne, which is, as it maybe can be guessed, located in Rom. Also, the whole book is written in Italian. In this case the title reveals the topic of the book. At the back is a contents…