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Taylor and Francis Ltd Generosity and Architecture 1st Edition 2022 by Mcvicar, Mhairi
Critically examines 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. _x000D_Includes contributions from Ireland, USA, Canada, UK, South Africa, Australia, Israel, France and Cyprus. _x000D_Illustrated with over 100 black and white images._x000D_ _x000D_
List of figures; Illustration credits; List of contributors; Preface: A love letter to generosity - Nathalie Weadick; Introduction - Mhairi McVicar, Stephen Kite and Charles Drozynski; 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_x000D_
- Nooridayu Ahmad Yusuf; 5. Immanent gifts - Lily Chi; 6. Vessels and landscapes: Emotion and social function _x000D_
- Christopher Platt; 7. Good Life and Flower Tree project - Antonio Capelao; 8. 'Rewild My Street': A model for community-led urban rewilding - Sian 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 Drozynski; 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 Ballaro, 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_x000D_