Generosity and architecture. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mhairi McVicar, Stephen Kite and Charles Drozynski.
• Editors: McVicar, Mhairi; Kite, Stephen; Drozynski, Charles
• Contents: List of figures Illustration credits List of contributors Preface: A love letter to generosity; Nathalie Weadick Introduction ; Mhairi McVicar, Stephen Kite and Charles Drożyński PART 1: Humanity and Delight 1. Waterlines: RiverBank – Change and the necessity of generosity; Ronit Eisenbach 2. Generosity as excess: Medievalism and fantasy in London’s Victorian sewer works Martin Bressani and Cigdem Talu 3. ‘Think first of the walls’: Surfaces of generosity – William Morris, Philip Webb, and the Arts and Crafts domestic interior; Stephen Kite 4. Of being an actor or an audience: Generosity in the pattern of staircase as a stage; Nooridayu Ahmad Yusuf 5. Immanent gifts; Lily Chi 6. Vessels and landscapes: Emotion and social function; Christopher Platt 7. Good Life and Flower Tree project; Antonio Capelao 8. ‘Rewild My Street’: A model for community-led urban rewilding; Siân Moxon PART 2: Abundance of Spirit 9. Modernist, Metabolist, and Brutalist generosity; Albert van Jaarsveld 10. Generosity and architecture’s wide-open spaces; Chris L. Smith 11. Conditional generosity: Architecture for the subvert, Gerlev Parkour Park; Charles Drożyński 12. Generosity through co-design: Collaborating with the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate; Phoebe Crisman 13. Care and Generosity in Architectural Design; Shelly Cohen 14. Illegal architecture?: Unravelling the ethics of insurgent practice through the work of Santiago Cirugeda in Spain; Juan Usubillaga 15. Synergic effects as practical generosity in architecture; Xavier Bonnaud 16. Camden Active Spaces; Susanne Tutsch and Sarah Ackland PART 3: Policies of Participation 17. Surplus land; William Hodgson 18. Maintenance and repair as care with generosity; Juliet Davis 19. Asking much of all involved: A Community Asset Transfer in Grangetown, Cardiff; Mhairi McVicar 20. Meanwhile use as generosity?; Cathy Smith 21. Practice of/with generosity in the contested space of Cyprus; Esra Can 22. The multi-scalar production of intercultural urban landscapes: Inter-Cultural Nodes as urban and social re-activators - The case of Ballarò, Palermo; Federico Wulff Barreiro and Oscar Brito-Gonzalez 23. A place for participation on the Old Kent Road; Jane Clossick 24. Beyond Lending: A case study; George Lovesmith, Mohamad Fez Miah, and Dr Aled Singleton Select Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 720.108; Architecture -- Human factors; Architecture and society; Generosity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000632392; 9781000632361; 9781003211815
• Related ISBNs: 9781032078519; 9781032078540
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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