Generosity and Architecture

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.

Book Details

• Author: Mhairi McVicar, Stephen Kite, and Charles Droyski
• Publisher: Routledge
• eBook ISBN: 9781000632392, 1000632393
• Print ISBN: 9781032078519, 1032078510
• Other ISBNs: 1032078545, 100321181X, 9781032078540, 9781003211815