Land Air Sea

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.

“[Land Air Sea] moves past well-known Renaissance theories regarding the relationship between buildings, planning and the environment, turning the discussion towards environmental history and ways of managing climate change. The book indeed brings to light how such efforts started well before the twentieth century. It underlines that more recent climatic designs actually originated in the period that covers the late medieval to the eighteenth century, and that agrarian premodern societies, far from being oblivious to environmental consciousness, were concerned with the management of climate change."Marina Inì (University of Cambridge), International Journal of Maritime HistoryDOI: 10.1177/08438714251408458

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on the EditorsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Climatic Effects—Environmental Genealogies before Contemporary CrisisJennifer Ferng and Lauren JacobiPart 1: Land1 Land, War, and Castles: The Management of Landed WealthKatie Jakobiec2 The Paradoxical Colosseum: A Mesocosm for Early Modern RomeKristi Cheramie and Robert John Clines3 Flood Mitigation, Territory, and Time: Girolamo di Pace da Prato in Early Ducal FlorenceCaroline E. MurphyPart 2: Air4 Sleeping under the Hazardous Dome of the SkyAn Intertextual Study of Representation of Corporeality in Seventeenth Century Architecture and Poetry of Safavid IsfahanMahroo Moosavi5 Forced Air: Artificial Power and Environmental Control in Eighteenth-Century BritainAleksandr Bierig6 Cosmogenic Histories: Aboriginal Observations on Catastrophe and ClimateJennifer FerngPart 3: Sea7 Left on Shore: Iron and Fish in the North AtlanticChristy Anderson8 Sea Levelling: Britain’s Early Modern Port Infrastructure as Environmental ContextWilliam M. TaylorBibliographyIndex