ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|84 pages
Humanity and delight
chapter 3|11 pages
‘Think first of the walls': Surfaces of generosity
part 2|80 pages
Abundance of spirit
chapter 14|12 pages
Illegal architecture?
part 3|98 pages
Policies of participation