The first word that I asked Alice, using the “Xenotheka Library” brain was “mistake” which I think is the main theme of our old book. The first thing of the ten thousand outputs that Alice put out was a Book about Schopenhauer and the Aesthetics of Creativity. As I didn’t see a direct connection to…
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Della architettura – Giueseppe Viola Zanini At first I thought that the topic of the conversation with architecture would be obvious and that I should rather look for something else. So, I searched for typical architectural things like… pillars, measurement etc. But I was a bit confused with the results. For this reason, I switched…
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The book Synopsis architecturae civilis eclecticae from Johann Jacob Schübler is filled with tables that he created himself and various sections and floorplans, which he discusses in the course of the book. The very long title of the book, which I decided to shorten here, reveals a lot about the content of Schübler’s book. Consequently, I searched for…
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I chose to search for quite specific words in Alice, because Vitruvius is the general base of architectural literature and it has something in common with almost every historical book about architecture. So to search for keywords like „the orders“ or greek/roman architecture would be quite boring. I used the phrases „military design is“, and…
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The book “Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque” contains mostly drawings and just few words. Therefor was it quite hard to start searching for keywords. So, I made a short list with words that describe what is shown in the book List: -Rossi -Temple -Illustration -Rome The keyword “Rossi” did not end in useful results….
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Friends with an old Book – Le anitchità romane, Giovanni Piranesi Xenotheka First, I familiarized myself with the ‘Ask Alice’ search engine by exploring the different bodies in Alice’s brain. Then I selected the Xenotheka library and decided on two terms I wanted to investigate. My book, Le Antichità Romane, was about Roman architecture. This…
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Friends with an old Book – Le anitchità romane, Giovanni Piranesi I chose the book “Art in Theory” by Harrison Wood Gaiger because I was trying to find a connection and comparison between the Roman architecture that Piranesi describes and depicts and the Greek architecture. The book refers to the history of architecture. I used…
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Xentotheka_18 Elio Bysäth 21-919-519 I find «Ask Alice» a really interesting concept. Since Xenotheka is a huge collection of books a search machine like ask Alice is essential to utilize and navigate this body of books. To better understand Alice and maximize its potential I first looked at the provided YouTube tutorials explaining how Alice…
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For this third exercise I used the following comparison words: Obelisk, Rome, Christianity, symbol of power and obelisk in Rome I entered these search terms into Alice using the Xenotheka Library brain. I came across two books. With the search term obelisk I came across the book by Rem Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture. The search term…
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1. describe your process: write about the words you have chosen, the type of ‘brains’ you have adopted in Alice, and the stages of your search, including possible initial dead ends. I have chosen one of the several times mentioned supertitles, the proportions of lines and architecture in general, for my research and compared it…