Precedents of Architecture

Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis

-Roger H. Clark
Michael Pause
Analysis in Architecture  Symmetry
 Balance by Configuration
 Structure  Balance by Geometry
 Natural Light  Balance by Positive and
 Reduction Negative
 Large plus Small  Geometry
Reduction  Basic Geometry
 Part of Whole Reduction  Circle and Square
 Progressions  Rectangle overlapped by
 Hierarchy circle
 Transition  Two-Squares
 Transformation  Nine-Squares
 Mediation  Four-Squares
 Massing  1.4 and 1.6 Rectangles
 Plan to Section/Plan to Elevation  Geometric Derivatives
 Equal  Rotated, Shifted, and
 One to one-half Overlapped
 Analogous  Pinwheel, Radial, and
 Proportional Spiral
 Inverse  Grid
 Circulation to use Space  Additive and Subtractive
 Unit to Whole  Configuration Patterns
 Unit Equals Whole  Linear: uses
 Units contained in Whole  Linear: Circulation
 Whole greater than sum  Central: use
of Units  Central: Circulation
 Units aggregate to Form  Double Center
Whole  Cluster
 Units Overlap  Nested
 Units separate  Concentric
 Repetitive to Unique  Binuclear
 Unique surrounded by  Hierarchy
Repetitive
 Unique by
Transformation of
Repetitive
 Unique in Repetitive
Field
 Unique added to
Repetitive
 Unique Defined by
Repetitive
 Symmetry and Balance