I started the conversation with the most obvious words: obelisk and Rome. While “obelisk” was a good conversation starter, the word Rome opened the door of Roman history, of Roman architecture and Italy in general. To narrow down the results, I tried the combination of “obelisk in rome”. And came across a book named “Adolf…
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For this third exercise I used the following comparison words: Obelisk, Rome, Christianity, symbol of power and obelisk in Rome I entered these search terms into Alice using the Xenotheka Library brain. I came across two books. With the search term obelisk I came across the book by Rem Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture. The search term…
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The titel of the book is de gli obelischi di Roma. With the “obelischi” is meant a pointed columne, which is, as it maybe can be guessed, located in Rom. Also, the whole book is written in Italian. In this case the title reveals the topic of the book. At the back is a contents…
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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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Reasoning first page: The eye-catching letter and the big writing differ from the rest of the book. Reasoning second page: The structured page with the clean writing is very pleasing to the eye and stands in contrary to the cursive writing on the other pages. Dilara Su Baysal | 21-928-767 | Atelier Blaas