ABSTRACT
In this paper, I propose to think of generosity, not as a quality detached from its field of practice but as the result of what we may call synergic effects that stand at the core of architecture.
We will present a detail analysis of these effects at different place or levels or scales in the design and reception processes, to express how, under certain circumstances, some new elements arise and how they can be received as gifts emerging from precise links that architecture makes possible under certain circumstances that we will clarify in conclusion.
These reflections will help us consider, more seriously, the responsibility of architects and the opportunities they offer to engage with a type of restoration processes as we entered a global and what may be considered as a destabilized era called Anthropocene. In this chapter I assert that spatial relations or the synergic effects they offer help us reconsider the level at which and for which ecological, social, and political impacts we should or shouldn’t transform radically as inhabited milieus. Facing such tasks, architectural knowledge could provide us with the means in order to engage more synergic and cooperative interplays among living creatures, reconsidering the déjà-là potential of our planet and the cultural and democratic constructions we have already initiate.
