课程在研究学生作品前先研究下列先例，而非传统的阅读资料。这些先例直接来源于安装工作和学生的经验。这些作品在课堂上讨论过，促进了对学生文化，意识对无意识，以及存在和空间之间的关系这些问题的讨论。一些问题在全班讨论，其它则仅与单个学生作品有关。但是大体上所有这些都有助于实践课程较大型的讨论，促进建立一个建筑项目的目标。
Instead of traditional readings, the class studied the following precedents as a precursor to their work. These precedents came directly from the work of the installations and from the experiences of the students. These works were discussed in class, fostering a discussion on the issues of student culture, the conscious versus the unconscious, and the relationship of being and space. Some were discussed by the whole class, while others related to only one student's work. But all of this in general contributed to the larger debate of the studio, and the aim of creating an architectural project.

先例与研究
Precedents and Research

乔·德汉姆
Joe Dahmen

• 弗雷德·萨德拜克－“无私人化”的空间
  Fred Sandback - spaces of "no interiority"
• 麻省理工学院校园历史－建筑在填埋场上的空间，不固定和暂时
  The History of MIT's Campus - a space built on landfill, floating and impermanent
• 结构形态学－张力，平衡，摩擦
  Structural morphology - tension, balance, friction

塔利雅·多萝茜
Talia Dorsey

• 阿玛尔格·伯士－声学和声音技术
  Amar Bose - acoustics and sound technology
• 以声音创造空间
  Space making through sound
• 音乐理论－结构的复杂性
  Music theory - complexity of structure

凯蒂斯·赫林斯基
Katice Helinski

• 德勒兹－空间造型问题和实质性
  Gilles Deleuze - issues of space-molding and materiality
• 乔治·路易斯·博尔基斯－空间中光的问题
  Jorge Luis Borges - issues of light in space
• 迪亚哥－万物乃实物，包括空气和光
  Diego Velasquez - everything is materiality, even air, even light

詹姆斯·史密斯
James Smith

• 分析立体主义与毕加索－深度和空间感知问题
  Analytical Cubism and Pablo Picasso - issues of depth and spatial perception
• 马塞尔·杜桑－艺术中的空间关系
  Marcel Duchamp - relations of space in art
• 弗朗西斯·培根－动画形式的概念
  Francis Bacon - concepts of animated form
• 吉尔斯－深度和折叠
  Gilles Deleuze - depth and folding