We are certainly not alone in considering what might be the new rules for school, or indeed what new types of school might meet the needs of architectural and spatial practitioners. Researcher, academic and architect Charlotte Malterre Barthes has been working with illustrator and artist Zosia Dzierżawska on the idea of generosity and how transformative a force it may be. Originally published in the academic journal CARTHA, we are delighted to reproduce New Rules for A Generous School of Architecture as part of our issue on pedagogy.
We are indebted to Francisco Moura Veiga, editor of CARTHA magazine, to Charlotte Malterre Barthes and Zosia Dzierźawska for permission to reproduce this work.
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Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Malterre-Barthes’ interests are related to urgent aspects of contemporary urbanisation, material extraction and climate emergency, and how struggling communities can gain greater access to resources, better governance, and ecological/social justice. She co-authored among other books Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun (Nobrow), Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore (Edition Patrick Frey), Migrant Marseille and Housing Cairo: The Informal Response (Ruby Press), and recently started the initiative ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction.’ She is a founding member of the Parity Group and Parity Front, networks dedicated to improving equity in architecture.
Zosia Dzierżawska is a Warsaw-based illustrator & comics author with a passion for storytelling, history and architecture. Her works have been recognised twice at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition and the Society of Illustrators in New York. She has published with Oxford University Press, Rizzoli, Candlewick Press, and others. Her work on the graphic novel Eileen Gray. A House Under the Sun (ed. Nobrow, London, 2019) marked the beginning of a collaboration with the architect Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, which now continues as an ongoing series of illustrated essays on the current and future practice of architecture.
