Before starting the research, I had to first understand the machinations of “Ask Alice”. I am still not sure how exactly she works but what I found out right away is, that the title of my book is too long since it did not yield and closely related results on my first trial. The heat…
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First I wrote down some words, that I thought would describe my Book really well. These were geometry, handbook, construction, elements, architectural manual, problems of structure. I used the “Xenotheka Library” and the “Alberti and Vitruvius” brain from Alice. Alice showed a lot of different search results, what made it difficult to choose which ones…
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Given the fact that my book is a rewritten and edited French version of the 10 books of Vitruvius, it comes at ease that I started my Alice research by typing “architecture” into the “Topic of conversation” bar the word “Vitruvius”, as well as the phrase “10 books of architecture by Vitruvius” into the search…
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I have opened alice and typed the words drawing, structure and French. Afterwards I have gotten several options of books. Alice’s brain is adopted with the library of Shakespeare’s friends. I focused on three different books, who applied every time I searched with a new key word. Firstly, the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Secondly,…
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Researching my befriended book „Studio d’architettura civile“ by Ferdinando Ruggieri wasn’t all that easy at first, because it is majorly a collection of architectural drawings and doesn’t contain much text at all. To get some search results, I had to aim at comparable books, that revolved around architectural elements, ornaments and details, just as they…
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Although the „Ask Alice“ engine works quite self-explaining, I still felt the urge to watch the tutorial from the lecture and on the website again, to use it more efficiently. After doing so, I started to search with word describing the contents of my book “The Villas of the Ancients illustrated” by Robert Castell. I’ve…
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As determined in Task 2, “Recueil élémentaire d’architecture” by Jean-François de Neufforge was meant to give general examples and inspirations from all known architecture at the time. While doing my research I worked with the Xenotheka library and Alice as well as the Online Etymology Dictionary and Thesaurus. I worked with most of Alice’s brains,…
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If you’re buying a girl to date, there are a few details that you should take into account. These tips can help you get the results that you want. A great way to impress a female is by getting yourself. Young ladies like to think that they’re simply being approached with a genuine guy. 1…
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In order to compare the book “Vitruvius” by Walther Ryff and its important topics with others, I have summarized central text passages in keywords. First, I searched for the broad keyword “theory of architecture” in Alice’s Brain by Xenotheka. Unsurprisingly, Vitruvius came up in most of the search hits. The book “Renaissance and Baroque Architecture”…