ABSTRACT
Interviews bring out the context and motivations behind buildings and practices, capturing things not accessible by studying the work alone. A list of possible case study buildings also emerged from the teaching experience and expanded thanks to suggestions during the interviews, yielding the projects that shaped the ideas and examples in this book. Finally, comparisons made across and among buildings through grouping, arrangement, and contrast revealed attributes, patterns, and common organizational strategies of the case studies. Developed from the analytical drawings prepared during the research process, the three matrices enable not only the study of individual buildings and comparisons among them but also reveal patterns or trends across the full set of case studies, and perhaps the limits of this set.
