The post consists of a paragraph of at least 300 words where you will: 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. 2. illustrate your findings: discuss which two (or more) books you have…
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Um mich zunächst mit der Funktionsweise von “Xenotheka” und der damit zusammenhängenden Suchmaschine “Alice” vertraut zu machen, habe ich mit einem offensichtlichen Schlagwort, nämlich “Oriental Gardening”, unter der Kategrie “Architecture” begonnen und mir die ersten Treffer angesehen. Dabei waren die Bücher Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory sowie Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture die ersten Anzeigetreffer. Hierbei…
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My book treats on the works of Vincent Scamozzi and the principles he believe should be adopted in a “universal architecture”. In my work with Alice I chose to investigate the idea of “universal architecture” and the Vitruvian five orders which play an important role in the book. My first choice of a brain was…
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At first, I used the entry “le due regole della prospettiva pratica” and alices brain of Xenotheka to find books with similar topics to the book 27 but I only found one result and that was the result of book 27. Secondly, I tried to remember the topics of book 27 that are drawing in…
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When I used Alice to find books in the Xenotheka library, I first thought of key words to use. As my book is one of the “Säulenbücher” I tried this keyword first. Sadly, this didn’t bear any results. With my next search words, I stuck with the topic of architecture. As the author of my…
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#20-712-022 #10 My chat with the old books in the xenotheka started after I simply searched for “doors” in the topic of conversation architecture. The very first quote Alice replied with was the following: All else arches, pedestals, attics, even doors and windows are by definition extraneous. Then Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory started to give…
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My book is “Insignium Romae templorum”, a book made by “Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi”, I took various steps to narrow down the search for comparable book with the help of Alice. First of I defined the “order” for architecture since my book has it focus on architectural buildings and designs and resumed by just tipped…
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Friends with an old book Lars Niklas Ludes 21-948-492 Since my book is called “Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect” I decided to search for the term “Vitruvius” in Alice first, the Topic of conversation was set to “long”. Alice used her brain/body and named “Alberti and Vitruvius Library”. I came across several books, including…
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Using “Ask Alice” as a starting point for a preliminary search, I searched for similar content through the title of my book (“Reigles générale d’architecture”). To filter through the many listings which resulted from this search, I chose to narrow my scope of research on the books which contained Jean Bullant’s name in their context description. The first book which…
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20-944-021 Since my book is about the process of drawing and giving the reader a guideline how to draw different buildings I started with the search of: Architecture Instructions. Vitruv was the first result, so I moved on to the second one to get to read something new. The other result was about the writer…