UZAYR USMAN AGHA
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24 chaukandi
23 going home again
22 scaffold
22 vecindades
21 sky landing
20 sub-forms
01 formal analysis
02 building project
03 fragments as a whole
04 post plantation landscapes
05 guneywah farmstead
Instruction by Peter Eisenman
New Haven, CT, USA
Academic
These drawings were produced for Formal Analysis, a required first-year seminar taught at the Yale School of Architecture. The course centers on the close study of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture through the discipline of formal analysis, in which students are asked to draw what is not immediately visible: the latent geometric structures, deliberate manipulations of light and proportion, and conceptual intentions that shape each building.
The drawings presented here include Alberti’s facade strategies at the Tempio Malatestiano, Michelangelo’s deliberate distortions in the Laurentian Library, and the evolving dome of St. Peter’s by Bramante, Sangallo, and Michelangelo.