Introduction to: Being There - Reflections on 20 years of the International course at the Huddersfield Department of Architecture

the Huddersfield Department of Architecture had developed a degree course
and was fully recognised by the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) by
the early 1980s. However, aside from the personal predilections of individual
staff members, and a strongly held belief that all buildings should be
responsive to their sites, there was no sense of a distinguishing philosophy
underlying the course, which marked it out from many other ‘recognised’
courses whose curricula were, of course, related to RIBA requirements