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The Book was surprisingly lightweight, and it had a really awful smell to it. But I loved it.

First Greetings: The architecture of Palladio

Diese Doppelseite befindet sich ungefähr in der Mitte des Buches. Ich habe sie gewählt, weil ich diese Abbildung als ein sehr gutes Beispiel finde, wie man ein Gebäude durch einem Grundriss und einer Frontalansicht verständlich und ästhetisch schön darstellen kann. Als ich dann das Buch und die Doppelseite in Echt gesehen habe, war ich fasziniert,…

GREETINGS #71

I visited the archive of the ETH Library. I had the opportunity to have a look at the Book “Architectura et persepctiva des fortifications & artifices” of the author Jacques Perres. Beforehand I chose two pages from the book which i took from an online forum. Afterwards I looked these exact pages up at the…

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The book is very beautifully bound. The Leather and the red color on the side adds a nice touch. It was a little bit scary to handle this book knowing its age.

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I chose these two pages because there’s text, a sketch and a picture displayed, I think they give a clear image of what’s to be expected from the rest of the book. The cover of the book had a smooth feel to it and was engraved with golden letters on the side, the pages itself…

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I chose the first page because of it’s appearance. A large part of it is brown coloured and it seems like someone spilled their coffee over it or just lightly burnt it. The second page got mz attention because of the beautiful drawings of the front view and the section. I took a picture of…

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Ernst Friedrich von Borgsdorf 1495 Die fotografierten Seiten sind interessant, da durch Skizzen eine Art Festung dargestellt werden. Der Zustand des Buches ist gut erhalten, jedoch kann man kaum die Originalfarbe des Covers oder der Seiten erkennen, da diese über die Jahre vergilbt sind.

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The Architecture of Palladio I choose these two pages because I was intrigued by the tools that were drawn on one of the pages.