Analytic Models in Architecture

Analytic Models in Architecture documents Yale School of Architecture student
work from the undergraduate studio course “The Analytic Model: Descriptive and
Interpretive Systems in Architecture,” taught by Emmanuel Petit from 2005 to
2014.
The projects are organized to a set of ten conceptual categories that emphasize varying
strategies of formal analysis: Aggregation, Cinematics, Condensation, Diagrammatics,
DNA, Fluid Interlocking, Fragmentation, Morphology, Seriality, and Thickened 2-D.
Five critical essays focus on particular aspects of analysis in architecture: Anna Bokov
about the Soviet avant-garde, Matthew Claudel about agency as the crucial qualifier,
Kyle Dugdale draws an analogy to Homeric analysis, exposing the web of deceit that
underlies the ostensibly dispassionate analytic exercise, John McMorrough asks what
constitutes architectural analysis after close reading is over, and Emmanuel Petit reviews
the different ideologies that concepts of analysis have occupied in architectural theory
throughout modernity.