A History of Architecture and Trade (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Haughey, Patrick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351796798
• Artikelnr.: 50919356

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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