The Tafuri Signature Analyzer ((TSA): Prototyping an AI-Augmented Method for Critical Design Analysis

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The project introduces the Tafuri Signature Analyzer (TSA), an AI tool applying Manfredo Tafuri's critical-theoretical framework to architectural analysis. Unlike existing LLM-based design assistants that rely on generic or rubric-based feedback, the TSA is fine-tuned on Tafuri's historiographical method to deconstruct the ideological, rhetorical, and socio-economic dimensions embedded in architectural projects and urban plans — representing the first AI tool to operationalize a historically grounded critical theory in architecture.