Architecture of Care in South Africa

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.

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