Comment 1: Xenotheka_75: While searching for the book “A History of Architectural Theory” written by Hanno-Walter Kruft, that was one of the books that I found for the Xenotheka exercise, I came across your book. I found a lot of similarities with my book, “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e…
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Xenotheka_83 Comment 1: I came across your book by looking for “public and private”. Our books have many things in common. Starting by sharing the same book we found on Alice in Xenotheka: Elements of Architecture written by Rem Koolhaas. Moreover, we both stumbled upon this book by typing “public and private” in Alice’s search engine….
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When I started my search on Alice, I had already some word in mind, that I wanted to search with. Words such as, Public, private, decoration and geometry. All four of them can be read out of the title of my book “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e privati edifici:…
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To find a particularly relevant book in relation to my book I sent many texts to Alice. I started with the topic of conversation: “Handbook”, as it seems important to me, that this book was specifically written to be used. The first text I sent to her was: “designers and craftsmen”, because the book is…
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The title already reveals a lot about the content of the book “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e privati edifice” followed by “preceduta da un articolo di Geometria in pratica ad uso delli disegnatori, et artefici / di Paolo Federico Bianchi” which translated in English means Practical institution of civil architecture for…
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The books title, which translates from Italian to « Practical institution of civil architecture for the decoration of public and private buildings: preceded by an article on geometry in practice for the use of designers and craftsmen » already reveals a lot about the books content. It is about the decoration of public and private buildings,…
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I chose these two Pages because I have always shown great interest for Ancient Pillars as seen with Greek and Roman structures, especially the Ionic and Corinthian Pillars caught my eye because the decorative elements remind me of the Golden section. The books cover was unlike any book I have previously seen, the cover doesn’t…
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I chose the first page from my book because I thought that the drawing depicted above the title of the chapter was quite nice and the decorative Initial looked very interesting. The second page I chose, because of the many geometrical shapes that are illustrated. 2. The book cover had very nice marbling and leather…
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Task 1 I chose the first page because it not only shows a beautiful image but also a image that teaches you something. The second page is interesting as it shows the reprint of the images provided in the book, this reprint is not only visible on this page but on all the back pages…