I’ve had directly two different words that I thought of, which I needed to look up. The first word I looked up on Alice was “fortification”. The body I had chosen was Xenotheka. It gave me some nice quotes, which included the word I was looking for, but the themes of the books had nothing…
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Friends with an old Book Task 2 Universae Architecturae Civilis Elementa, Christian Rieger, 1756 Universae Architecturae Civilis Elementa is a book that was published in 1756 by Christian Rieger. It was written in Latin at the time and covers civil architecture in about 300 pages. Christian Rieger was able to print his book with the…
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The book of Joseph Fruttenbach, Architectura civilis, is quite a hard read because of it’s old language. So reading the book was not easy from the beginning, but it was possible after all. What the book is about was clear already, but for me the keywords were important. Fruttenbach writes about how certain buildings, especially…
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My first step was breaking my understanding of the book’s contents down into keywords, following the overview I had gained through task 2. In “De sacris aedificiis a Constantino magno constructis’’, the main topic are churches built by the emperor Constantine the great. The first topic of conversation and the brains used were Architecture and the Architecture Library,…
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Architectura Civilis by Joseph Furttenbach (1628) was still written in the old German writing, which initially caused difficulties because I found it difficult to read the text. So, at first glance, I found very little information. This also made it difficult for me to find keywords to ask Alice about. After reading the book and…
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21-932-850 Since my book is about the five orders of Vitruvius I started with the searching word “five orders of architecture”. For Alice’s brain I chose Xenotheka. The first result that appeared was the book Modern Architectural Theory written by Harry Francis Mallagrave. The website lead me directly to the whole book which has more than 500 pages….
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First I tried to refreshen my memory about the last task. ‚Cours d’architecture‘ is a huge book which contains a lot of information. I was looking for general information about the author of the book, Augustin Charles d’Avigner and the things he generally preached. So my search was more based on books which put him…
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The book, “Cours d’architecture, ou Traité de la décoration, distribution &construction des bâtiments”, written by Blondel, Jacques-François, was meant to be an encyclopedia book to guide architects at that time. The book did not focus on a specific theme but rather covered various topics. Therefore, in the beginning, it was hard to find a particular…
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Starting the third task, I decided to have a look at the second task in order to remember what I have found interesting and what was striking. My book is called “A Dissertation on Oriental gardening” by William Chambers, which was written in 1772. Regarding this I chose to give the words “oriental gardening” a…
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My old book is called Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura and was the work of the Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. The book is dedicated to the five orders of architecture. To find books connected to my book, I linked Alice’s brain to the Xenotheka library. I challenged myself to find three different types…