After documenting individual buildings and urban cores of cities in previous classes, this year marked a change in focus for the semester project for the, ÒPre-Columbian and Colonial architecture of MexicoÓ graduate seminar in the UTSA Dept. of Architecture. In order to build analytical, conceptual, and compositional skills for the design studio and professional practice, the seminar examined comparative courtyard typologies and their transformation in works of architecture from the pre-Columbian and colonial era to the present. Projects were paired to facilitate analysis and comparison and the analytical drawings followed basically the same drawing conventions and graphic format. For the first time students in the seminar formed a book of their work of the studio which you see here, to document their work to reach a broader public audience beyond the school.