Wendel Dietterlins Architectura de postium seu portalium ornatu vario was published in 1595. The title translated from latin means the architecture of doors and portals and their various ornaments. The Book is quite large in size, the pages being well over a4. The paper of the ETH Libraries copy itself has yellowed over time and…
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Friends with an Old Book, Group 37 Task 2: Argument „Résolution des quatre principaux problèmes d’architecture“, François Blondel ‚Solving the four main architectural problems‘ is the full title of the book translated in English. The author has four thesis about the four main problems in architecture. It reminds me a bit of a „Maturaarbeit“ (Diplomawork…
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The full title of the book indicates that this book is not only a travel guide for people who would like to visit Italy, it should be read as travel literature because the book also described the country’s morals and customs, spiritual and political and buildings that are worth seeing. The book have 3 list…
Argument_65
Der Titel des Buches lautet «anderer Versuch seiner architect». Er deutet darauf hin, dass das Buch einen anderen Ansatz oder eine andere Perspektive auf die Architektur eröffnet. Der Titel spricht also Leute an, die ein neues oder anderes Bild von der Architektur bekommen wollen oder sollen. Das Buch beinhält ein paar Texte, der grösste Teil…
Argument_15
The tile of the book « Architectura et perspectiva des fortifications & artifice » provides information that this book is about the perspective and architecture of buildings. Therefore, it includes perspective drawings of buildings which will be discussed. However, there is no information in the title about the urban planning, which is addresses in the book. The…
Argument_Livre d’architecture
The full title of the Book reads as „Livre d’architecture“ with the detailed subtitles „Contenant les principes generaux de cet art.“ „Et les plans, elevations et profils de quelques-uns des batiments faits en France et dans les Pays Etrangers“. Especially the subtitles give an already quite detailed overview over the content of the book, which…
Argument_80
This book has a very interesting title which already says a lot about its theme but also explains to whom it is addressed and what its purpose is. By calling itself “The City and Country Builder’s and Workman’s Treasury of Designs: or, The Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture” the title…
Argument_27
The title of the book is The two rules of the practical perspective. Probably there is in the book theory about how we as humans see the things in the world and on what base of rules we can draw a 3-dimensional object into a piece of paper that is 2 dimensional. The book is…
Argument_110
Das Buch Ich gelesen habe, ist Il nouvo splendore delle fabriche in prospettiva di Roma moderna von Giovanni Battista Falda, wer im Jahr zwischen 1643 und 1678 gelebt hatte. Er war ein italienischer Zeichner, Kupferstecher und Drucker, der die Architektur in Rom in der zweiten Hälfte des 17 Jh. kartografierte und dokumentierte. Er war in…
Argument_9
#21-936-406 #9 Della trasportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano et delle fabriche di Sisto V is a book written by Domenico Fontana and published in 1590. Fontana was an Italian architect from what is now Canton Ticino. After his move to Rome he was appointed architect of St Peter’s by Pope Sixtus V and thanks to this title…