Given the rather strange and specific nature of the content of my old book I felt there were multiple aspects of the book I could isolate and try to find new books relating to that specific aspect. Since “Della transportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V» is a book about obelisks I thought…
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I began the third task by familiarizing myself with the search engine “Alice”. I entered various search terms that interested me in connection with Sebastiano Serlio, such as “woman”, “sport”, “capital”, “column”, “glass”. I quickly realized that the selection was huge. I tried to choose terms that were not directly associated with Serlio. For example,…
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At first, I wanted to find out if my book or the author where mentioned in other books. I knew that Palladio was a wellknown person, so I started by putting in his name. I realised very quickly, that he was mentioned in a very big number of books. Even the title of his book…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 At a started the assignment I wondered what topics I should begin with. I decided to brainstorm a little. The first step I took was write the whole title and choosing some of the words. For example the obvious one in this case would…
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My book is called „Neuherfürgegebene Kriegsarchitectur“ and is about new ideas of fortress architecture and war buildings. When I used Alice for the first time, to find books that are somehow related to my book, I first thought of key words to use. Since my book is about war, I tried this key word first….
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The research for this task was quite complicated in the beginning, because I tried to use Alice in a “learning-by-doing” way, and didn’t fully get the system at first. After experimenting a bit and changing the topics, brains, etc. I developed a work flow and was able to do my research more precisely. I mainly used…
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First I wrote down some words, that I thought to stand in connection with the topic of my book: Fortification, attack, defense, warfare, attack, etc. Next I had planned to type them into Alice and get my results. Easy as that. But I had some trouble figuring Alice out. It took me a while but…
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Through this new task, I was able to familiarise myself with Xenotheka’s “Ask Alice” search machine. To do so, I chose 4 words that summarize my book “Reigle Générale d’Architecture des cinq manières de colonnes” by Jean Bullant, namely: architecture, columns, drawings and orders. The aim was to look for works related to my book,…
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The previous task gave me the basis for this task, in order to make good use of the Xenotheka digital library, I thought about which themes stood out in my book “Le Theatre de l’Art de Charpentier”. As I found out in the second assignment, it is about the art of the carpenter. The wooden…
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First I looked for the book I had mentioned in the second task , which Piranesi referenced to in his book. Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce Body : Xenotheka Library & Body: Architecture library . Which didn’t bring me much Though the name of the author did bring interesting information about…