A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative.
A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative.
Patrick Haughey is a Professor of Architectural History at Savannah College of Art and Design, USA, where he teaches modern, urban and global architecture history. His research uses a multidisciplinary approach to architecture history, deploying world systems, economics, history and cultural geography. His scholarship critiques the impacts of colonialism and finance on architecture and urbanism. He also teaches studio, drawing and rendering for the Interior Design and Architecture Departments.
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Acknowledgements Author Biographies Introduction: The architecture of trade is as old as human history Patrick Haughey 1. Legacies of Colonialism: Towards an architectural history of capitalism Patrick Haughey 2. Spices, spies and speculation: Trust and Control in the early Batavia-Amsterdam system Robert Cowherd 3. Cities of incense and myrrh: Fantasy and capitalism in the Arabian Gulf Nasser Rabbat 4. Borneo, the river effect and the spirit world millionaires Mark Jarzombek 5. House as marketplace: Swahili merchant houses and their urban context in the later Middle Ages Thomas Gensheimer 6. An anachronism of trade: The Mercato Nuovo in Florence (1546-1551) Lauren Jacobi 7. Merchant identity: The cartographic impulse in the architectural sculpture of the Llotja of Palma de Mallorca Doron Bauer 8. The travels of a merchant throughout the Islamic World Cecilia Fumagalli 9. Savannah's Custom House: A peculiar construction of galvanized iron, apparently durable and well-adapted to a southern climate Dennis DeWitt 10. The modernization of a port in British India: Calcutta, 1870-1880 Aniruddha Bose 11. Building the marble elephant: The creation of Philadelphia's iconic City Hall Glen Umberger Index
Acknowledgements Author Biographies Introduction: The architecture of trade is as old as human history Patrick Haughey 1. Legacies of Colonialism: Towards an architectural history of capitalism Patrick Haughey 2. Spices, spies and speculation: Trust and Control in the early Batavia-Amsterdam system Robert Cowherd 3. Cities of incense and myrrh: Fantasy and capitalism in the Arabian Gulf Nasser Rabbat 4. Borneo, the river effect and the spirit world millionaires Mark Jarzombek 5. House as marketplace: Swahili merchant houses and their urban context in the later Middle Ages Thomas Gensheimer 6. An anachronism of trade: The Mercato Nuovo in Florence (1546-1551) Lauren Jacobi 7. Merchant identity: The cartographic impulse in the architectural sculpture of the Llotja of Palma de Mallorca Doron Bauer 8. The travels of a merchant throughout the Islamic World Cecilia Fumagalli 9. Savannah's Custom House: A peculiar construction of galvanized iron, apparently durable and well-adapted to a southern climate Dennis DeWitt 10. The modernization of a port in British India: Calcutta, 1870-1880 Aniruddha Bose 11. Building the marble elephant: The creation of Philadelphia's iconic City Hall Glen Umberger Index
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