This document summarizes a lecture on analyzing architecture given at the Sri Renugambal School of Architecture. The lecture covered several topics:
- Architecture as a way to identify place and basic architectural elements
- Light as both a condition and element of architecture that can be manipulated to characterize places
- Geometry, space, structure, and other architectural concepts
- Case study analysis of the Nautilus House in Mexico City and Vanna Venturi House in Pennsylvania to illustrate architectural elements and design concepts.