Land Air Sea

Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-43652-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 757 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era positions the long Renaissance and eighteenth century as being vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in contemporary debates on climate change and sustainability originated in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains, Land Air Sea consists of case studies examining how questions of environmentalism were formulated in early modern architecture and the built environment. Addressing emergent technologies, indigenous cultural beliefs, natural philosophy, and political statecraft, this book aims to recast our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by uncovering early modern epistemologies that redefined human impact on the habitable world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferng, Jennifer

Jacobi, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Climatic Effects—Environmental Genealogies before Contemporary Crisis

Jennifer Ferng and Lauren Jacobi

Part 1: Land

1 Land, War, and Castles: The Management of Landed Wealth

Katie Jakobiec

2 The Paradoxical Colosseum: A Mesocosm for Early Modern Rome

Kristi Cheramie and Robert John Clines

3 Flood Mitigation, Territory, and Time: Girolamo di Pace da Prato in Early Ducal Florence

Caroline E. Murphy

Part 2: Air

4 Sleeping under the Hazardous Dome of the Sky

An Intertextual Study of Representation of Corporeality in Seventeenth Century Architecture and Poetry of Safavid Isfahan

Mahroo Moosavi

5 Forced Air: Artificial Power and Environmental Control in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Aleksandr Bierig

6 Cosmogenic Histories: Aboriginal Observations on Catastrophe and Climate

Jennifer Ferng

Part 3: Sea

7 Left on Shore: Iron and Fish in the North Atlantic

Christy Anderson

8 Sea Levelling: Britain’s Early Modern Port Infrastructure as Environmental Context

William M. Taylor

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Ferng is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her recent books include Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (2021) and Drawing Climate: Visualising Invisible Elements of Architecture (2021). She received her Ph.D. from MIT.



Lauren Jacobi was Associate Professor in the History, Theory and Criticism division of the Department of Architecture at MIT. Her first book is The Architecture of Banking in Renaissance Italy (2019). She is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Yale University.