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Book SynopsisLand 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
