Generosity and Architecture

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This book proposes that architecture can function as a true embodiment of generosity and examines how generosity in architecture operates within, and questions, current and historical socio-economic and political systems. As such, it interrogates ways in which architecture aspires for something more, whether within economic austerities or within historic contexts of a discipline that has often been preoccupied with cost and quantitative measurement. The texts presented in this book critically examine the theme of generosity and architecture from a variety of perspectives, addressing the theoretical, the historical, and the everyday processes of architectural practice, procurement, and policy in a global context. The book is a richly collaborative text which explores how architecture – in its processes of ordering and shaping space – can represent and embody generosity in all its multi-faceted potential. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures Illustration credits List of contributors Preface: A love letter to generosity Introduction Part 1 Humanity and delight Chapter 1 WaterLines: RiverBank: Change and the necessity of generosity Chapter 2 Generosity as excess: Medievalism and fantasy in London’s Victorian sewer works Chapter 3 ‘Think first of the walls’: Surfaces of generosity: William Morris, Philip Webb, and the Arts and Crafts domestic interior Chapter 4 Of being an actor or an audience: Generosity in the pattern of staircase as a stage Chapter 5 Immanent gifts Chapter 6 Vessels and landscapes: Emotion and social function Chapter 7 Good Life and Flower Tree project Chapter 8 ‘Rewild My Street’: A model for community-led urban rewilding Part 2 Abundance of spirit Chapter 9 Modernist, Metabolist, and Brutalist generosity Chapter 10 Generosity and architecture’s wide-open spaces Chapter 11 Conditional generosity: Architecture for the subvert, Gerlev Parkour Park Chapter 12 Generosity through co-design: Collaborating with the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chapter 13 Care and Generosity in Architectural Design Chapter 14 Illegal architecture?: Unravelling the ethics of insurgent practice through the work of Santiago Cirugeda in Spain Chapter 15 Synergic effects as practical generosity in architecture Chapter 16 Camden Active Spaces Part 3 Policies of participation Chapter 17 Surplus land Chapter 18 Maintenance and repair as care with generosity Chapter 19 Asking much of all involved: A Community Asset Transfer in Grangetown, Cardiff Chapter 20 Meanwhile use as generosity? Chapter 21 Practice of/with generosity in the contested space of Cyprus Chapter 22 The multi-scalar production of intercultural urban landscapes: Inter-Cultural Nodes as urban and social re-activators: The case of Ballarò, Palermo Chapter 23 A place for participation on the Old Kent Road Chapter 24 Beyond Lending: A case study Select Bibliography Index