My first step in researching possibly related books in the xenotheka with Askalice was to take a look at my previous work on Wendel Dietterlin’s Architectura. I began by searching very simple and broad terms. Door, entrance, and portal and their respective plurals were my first ideas. The term entrances lead me to quickly discover…
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There is very little information at first glance on Livre d’architecture by Boffrand, which led to initial difficulties in finding keywords to ask Alice about. However, after reading into the book and interpretations of it e.g. by Van Eck in Eighteenth-Century Architecture, I discovered the book’s and authors’ close link to the concept of Architecture…
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1. The first thing I typed into the explore/find field was the whole title from the book by Johann Christoph Bischof: Kurtzgefasste Einleitung zur Perspectiv. As Brain I selected Xenotheka and architecture as topic. Sadly Alice responded with zero results in the explore mode as well as in the find mode. Perhaps Alice responds only if it is in English,…
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As I started my research on Alice to find related literature for my book, “architecture pratique” I first focused on terms like; practice, handbook, geometry, order, price, material. As the brain, I used the Xenotheka Library to keep the search wide. As the topic of conversation, I used architecture. I noticed that the different terms…
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At the beginning I needed to revisit my old blog post I made about Peyres book “Oeuvres d’Architecture” since I’ve mostly forgotten her words, but not so much her impressive drawings. Firstly, I began with typing in “drawings”. That was a dead end, because I didn’t quite realize that typing out the word wouldn’t get…
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Task 3 – Friends with an old Book – Xenotheka In Les Édifices Antiques De Rome where many roman ruins are measured and drawn in a very detailed manner, and in contrast to many predecessors, in the way they were found on site, one of the ruins which is subject of an in-depth investigation is…
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Zu Beginn der Aufgabe fiel es mir schwer, passende Bücher zu finden. Wenn ich Begriffe wie «Die fünf Ordnungen», «Säule» oder «Decor» usw. suchte, kam ich auf etliche Bücher und Literatur, die sich immer mit ähnlichen Fragen zu Proportionen und Gestaltung auseinandersetzen. Als ich dann, durch die zufällige Eingabe ähnlicher Begriffe, auf eine Sammlung von Wettbewerbseingaben bedeutender Gebäude aus den 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderten stiess,…
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For the 3rd Task of friends with an old book I used my knowledge about “The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated” by Robert Castell from the second task to search for similar topics in the “Alice” search engine. At first, I searched for the two villas Castell describes in his book, so the one at…
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I started by revisiting my previous tasks and again getting in touch with the book from Alexandre le Blond “explication des termes d’architecture”. It explains architectural terms in form of a dictionary, therefore I came up with the two simple but matching keywords “architectural terms” and “dictionary”. As the topic of conversation I used “architecture”….
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I started this task by going back to the second task and analyzing what the main topic is. I’ve came to the conclusion that I should start the search on Alice with the keywords “perspective” and “drawing instruction”. So I started my research on Alice to find related books for my book with the keywords…