This project focuses on investigating historical works to not just enrich student proficiency in architectural language, design and ideas but most importantly able to develop and hone students’ historical and architectural criticism skills. Through the study of existing buildings, students are able to communicate and expand their own architectural vocabulary and develop design concepts. In a group of 5, students are required to conduct precedent study analysis on specific building through on-line forum discussion, sketch analysis journal, verbal and board presentations. The precedent study analysis project helps in clarifying questions of “why” the case study is historically, culturally and architecturally importance; and “how” the design concepts derived from the case study can be developed and expanded to be creatively and innovatively integrated into prospect design project.