Programme is a dialectical tool through which architecture can emerge. In repsonse to the understanding of process through analysis, architecture is proposed which utilises and subverts existing typologies, developing the programme as a critical medium to question preconceptions of function and meaning. The politics of the city cannot be ignored in the generation of architecture. The city exists as a dynamic organism that changes over time. The work of the college recognises the importance of time.
Propositions incorporate the idea of change and evolution.
History Without a knowledge of history responses to the city are meaningless. Units develop approaches to historical readings, making evident latent order and pattern. Consequently a knowledge and understanding of precident is an essential tool in the devlopment of architectural argument.