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Architects care. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of 'an architecture of care' that not only remains embedded in current discourse and practice but that is being given a more vocal presence in our climate crisis and social justice world.
List of contents
Acknowledgments. Preface. Chapter 1.Buildings are for people: And other things. Chapter 2.Founders and founding tropes of an architecture of care. Chapter 3.Are you sitting comfortably? Inglenooks, armatures and over-anxious 'Dignified Places'. Chapter 4.Uplifting work: The moral art of Octavia Hill, unsettling settlers, and 'Hostels to Homes'. Chapter 5.Climate change: Arts and Crafts and context-based architecture in Southern Africa. Chapter 6.Mud and Soil: The political nature of building materials. Chapter 7.Handmade: From Cape Dutch animism and animated tools to a new 'joy in labour'. Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks. Index.
About the author
Nicholas Coetzer is an Associate Professor and NRF-rated researcher at the University of Cape Town School of Architecture where he has worked since 2001. He is also the Director of the independent non-profit School of Explorative Architecture and a registered architect in South Africa. Nic completed his PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2004 which was published with Ashgate in 2013 as
Building Apartheid: On Architecture and Order in Imperial Cape Town which solidified his interest in architecture at the turn of 19th century. Apart from many refereed journal publications and book chapters on contemporary and historical South African architecture and architectural pedagogy, Nic also contributed to a regular 'back page' column in
Architecture South Africa.
Summary
Architects care. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of ‘an architecture of care’ that not only remains embedded in current discourse and practice but that is being given a more vocal presence in our climate crisis and social justice world.
