A History of Architecture and Trade

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. The book uses an alternative holistic lens through which to view the development of architecture and trade, covering diverse topics such as the coercive urbanism of the Dutch East India Company; how slavery and capitalism shaped architecture and urbanization; and the importance of Islamic trading in the history of global trade. Each chapter examines a key site in history, using architecture, landscape and urban scale as evidence to show how trade has shaped them. It will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in areas such as world history, economic and trade history and architectural history.

AcknowledgementsAuthor Biographies Introduction: The architecture of trade is as old as human historyPatrick Haughey1. Legacies of Colonialism: Towards an architectural history of capitalismPatrick Haughey2. Spices, spies and speculation: Trust and Control in the early Batavia-Amsterdam systemRobert Cowherd3. Cities of incense and myrrh: Fantasy and capitalism in the Arabian GulfNasser Rabbat4. Borneo, the river effect and the spirit world millionairesMark Jarzombek5. House as marketplace: Swahili merchant houses and their urban context in the later Middle AgesThomas Gensheimer6. An anachronism of trade: The Mercato Nuovo in Florence (1546–1551)Lauren Jacobi7. Merchant identity: The cartographic impulse in the architectural sculpture of the Llotja of Palma de MallorcaDoron Bauer8. The travels of a merchant throughout the Islamic World Cecilia Fumagalli9. Savannah’s Custom House: A peculiar construction of galvanized iron, apparently durable and well-adapted to a southern climate Dennis DeWitt10. The modernization of a port in British India: Calcutta, 1870–1880Aniruddha Bose11. Building the marble elephant: The creation of Philadelphia’s iconic City HallGlen UmbergerIndex

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.