Program and Cross-Programming

Program:
- relates to those aspects of a brief which deal with Human movement and use of a building
- can be a plan of how to do something
-it tells the steps that we think we need to do to make something happen
-something required to make something else work- a computer program
- An act to edit function and human activities as the pretext of architectural design: epitomized in the maxim of "Form Follows Function"(Koolhaas)

Cross-Programming:
Introducing unexpected functions in room programs (Koolhaas)
A use of a space that is not as what was intended

Koolhaas 1994 "What ever happened to Urbanism"
"If there is to be a "new urbanism" .... it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects ..... it will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling fields that accommodate processes that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form; it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries, not about separating and identifying entities, but about discovering unnamable hybrids.......Since it is out of control, the urban is about to become a major vector of the imagination"