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.