the great manfredo tafuri defined a form of precedent analysis like this:
[operative criticism] is an analysis of architecture (or of the arts in general) that, instead of an abstract survey, has as its objective the planning of a precise poetical tendency, anticipated by its structures and derived from historical analyses programmatically distorted and finalized. ...[o]perative criticism plans past history by projecting it towards the future. ...[t]his type of criticism, by anticipating the ways of action, forces history: forces past history because, by investing it with a strong ideological charge, it rejects the failures and dispersions throughout history; and forces the future because it is not satisfied with the simple registering of what is happening, but hankers after solutions and problems not yet shown (at least, not explicitly so). its attitude is contenting towards past history, and prophetic towards the future.- manfredo tafuri, theories and history of architecture
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