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.