🏛️ Precedent Analysis Sheets | 20 Landmark Buildings, 120 Diagrams, A3, Plus a Blank Template, Free

Twenty landmark buildings, each analysed on one A3 sheet with the same six diagrams: massing and form idea, plan organisation, circulation, light and section, structure and envelope, and the key concept. Every sheet adds a short summary, lessons for your own project and keywords, all in one shared colour key, so you can compare buildings side by side.

The set runs from E-1027 (1929) to the Hikma Religious and Secular Complex (2018), and 8 of the 20 buildings are by women-led or co-led practices. A short method guide and an unbranded blank template let you analyse any building you choose in the same way.

📦 What’s inside

• 20 precedent sheets, A3 landscape, each as a single PDF and a 150 dpi PNG: E-1027, Paimio Sanatorium, Fallingwater, Casa Luis Barragan, Unite d’Habitation, Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Salk Institute, Sydney Opera House, Parliament of Sri Lanka, SESC Pompeia, Church of the Light, Vitra Fire Station, Therme Vals, Gando Primary School, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Aqua Tower, Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, UTEC University Campus, Transformation of 530 Dwellings (Grand Parc), Hikma Religious and Secular Complex.
• Combined PDF (22 pages) with cover, index and all 20 sheets, bookmarked.
• How to Analyse a Precedent (6 pages): the six step method, the six diagrams, conventions, writing lessons and a checklist.
• Blank template, A3, as SVG, PPTX and PDF.
• Start Here guide (3 pages).

🧩 Formats and compatibility

PDF for printing at A3 and PNG for adding a sheet to your research boards. The blank template opens as SVG in Illustrator, Affinity Designer or Inkscape, as PPTX in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, or prints from the PDF. Its SVG text uses Inter, a free Google Font, with Arial as the fallback.

🎯 Who it is for

Architecture students doing precedent studies for studio, history and theory courses or thesis research, and tutors who want a consistent analysis format for a class.

💡 Good to know

• Free download.
• The diagrams are schematic abstractions drawn for the kit from published descriptions, not copies of the architects’ drawings, and not to scale. Architect, year and place were checked against published sources; verify dimensions and details against primary sources before relying on them.
• Free for personal study and teaching; you may print the sheets for yourself, your study group or your class.
• Delivered as a download link (Google Drive), 1 file, about 38 MB (46 files inside).

🚀 Want more?

The sheets are numbered as part of the full set of 100 in the Diagram Mega Kit ($15): 100 precedent sheets from 1924 to 2018 across 35 countries, 30 of them by women-led or co-led practices, with an index workbook, plus 112 diagram templates in nine families (layered SVG in four styles, PNG and PPTX), 1,894 diagram components in 4,967 style versions, a 105 page Diagram Method Handbook, Photoshop and Illustrator assets and 16 colour systems. It is also part of the Ultimate Bundle ($69 for all ten packs).