Generosity and Architecture

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

Biography

Mhairi McVicar is a Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture and Academic Lead of Cardiff University’s Community Gateway, a partnership platform which has developed collaborative work with individuals and groups in Grangetown, Cardiff, since 2012. Mhairi’s published and current research examines the role of the architect in pursuing quality and equity in the built environment, with interest in how procedures of architectural education and practice can support trust and long-term collaboration.

Stephen Kite is an Emeritus Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. His research explores the history and theory of architecture and its wider links to visual culture. His many publications include the monographs: Shadow Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture (2017) and Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture (2012). Forthcoming, from his more recent research is: Shaping the Surface: Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840-2000 (2022).

Charles Drożyński is a Senior Lecturer of Architecture at the University of the West of England, UK. His research interests include the intersections of architecture and post-linguistic schools of thought; in particular, these put forward by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, with a focus on the significance of subversion as well as new or unconventional ideas in spatial design.