Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis	3
	Contents	5
	Prefaces	7
	Introduction	15
	Analysis	19
	Alvar Aalto	26
	Tadao Ando	34
	Erik Gunnar Asplund	38
	Stephane Beel	46
	Peter Q. Bohlin	50
	Mario Botta	58
	Filippo Brunelleschi	66
	David Chipperfield	74
	Sverre Fehn	78
	Romaldo Giurgola	82
	Nicholas Hawksmoor	90
	Herzog & de Meuron	98
	Steven Holl	102
	Toyo Ito	106
	Louis I. Kahn	110
	Tom Kundig	118
	Le Corbusier	122
	Claude Nicholas Ledoux	130
	Sigurd Lewerentz	138
	Edwin Lutyens	142
	Brian MacKay-Lyons	150
	Richard Meier	154
	Rafael Moneo	162
	Charles Moore	166
	Glenn Murcutt	174
	Jean Nouvel	178
	Andrea Palladio	182
	Thomas Phifer	190
	Henry Hobson Richardson	194
	Alvaro Siza	202
	James Stirling	206
	Louis Sullivan	214
	Yoshio Taniguchi	222
	Giuseppe Terrangi	226
	Ludwg Mies van der Rohe	234
	Robert Venturi	242
	Frank Lloyd Wright	250
	Peter Zumthor	258
	Formative Ideas	263
	Plan to Section or Elevation	278
	Unit to Whole	285
	Repetitive to Unique	292
	Additive and Subtractive	298
	Symmetry and Balance	300
	Geometry	306
	Configuration Patterns	320
	Progressions	330
	Reduction	334
	Index	339
	Index by Architect	339
	Index by Building	348