The title “architecture pratique” already says a lot about the content and main function of the book. The work primarily dealt with the problems of measuring, calculating and billing construction services and thus differed from the usual contemporary architectural literature. Bullet also tried himself in first structural investigations in terms of earth pressure und roof…
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De Gli Obelischi di Roma is the title of the book. The title is written in Italian, as the whole book, and translated it means “About the Obelisks in Rome”. In the book, “Mercati, Michele Basa”, the author of the book, goes into the specialties, origins, backgrounds, differences and other aspects of the obelisks in…
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Gabriel Aeschimann HS21ArgumentExtraordinario libro, Sebastiano Serlio The book by Sebastiano Serlio consists mainly of pictures. These show many different ways to design portals or entrances. The book was published in Italian in Lyon in 1551. It was published by the famous printer and publisher Jean de Tournes. A year later, he published a book by…
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The title of the book is “nouvelle manière de fortifier les places”, which is already quite revealing; It seems to be a kind of guide for architects (and probably warlords, too) on how to successfully design war-proof architecture. Maybe even architecture that might you a war or battle. It seems to reveal some kind of…
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The title “Opera di Francesco Borromino “ reveals what kind of building the book will talk about. We know that we will see pictures of an opera, which was a religious building back then. Furthermore the title explains that the Opera is referred to a man called Francesco Borromino. We can assume that he either…
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The title of the book, is quite general in its wording and gives the impression of very forward thinking, ahead of its time point of view, of the author. It suggests an analytical, comparative and observant text on Chinese design, in a time, when the westerners didn’t know as much about it as we do now….
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My book is called “the Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia” it was published in 1764 and written by Robert Adam in English. The title reveals the topic of this book. The books content gives an insight into the ruins of the Diocletian’s palace in Spalatro, Dalmatia. These ruins…
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My book is called „Neü-herfürgegebene Kriegsarchitektur“ which makes it very clear that the book focuses on military buildings. I also think that the word „neü“ is old German and stands for new. Therefore the book will probably be aimed at leaders that want to build their fortress with the newest methods. To show the reader…
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The title of the book “Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la modern” reveals pretty much the whole topic of the book. One knows what it could be about. The author of the book Charles-Antoine Jombert wrote in coorparation with other authors of its time this book which is the fourth part of a series of…