Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture

Elizabeth Merrill is a specialist of early modern Italian art and architecture, with a focus on architectural practices and the development of the architectural profession. She is Assistant Professor in Theory, History and Criticism of Early Modern Architecture at Ghent University in Belgium.

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Introduction: Embracing Specificity, Embracing Place (Elizabeth Merrill)

1. Architecture on Paper: The Development and Function of Architectural Drawings in the Renaissance (Wolfgang Lefèvre)

Part I Marking Place

2. The Santacroce Houses along the Via in Publicolis in Rome: Law, Place and Residential Architecture in the Early Modern Period (Nele De Raedt)

3. Towards a New Architecture of Cosmic Experience (Noam Andrews)

4. Architecture for Music: Sonorous Spaces in Sacred Buildings in Renaissance and Baroque Rome (Federico Bellini)

Part II Teaching Place

5. The Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala and the Construction of Siena (Elizabeth Merrill)

6. Places of Knowledge between Ulm and the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century: The Kunstkammer of Johannes Faulhaber (Paul Brakmann and Sebastian Fitzner)

7. Nicola Zabaglia's Scaffoldings for the Maintenance of Architectural Space in St. Peter's Basilica and throughout Europe in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Stefan M. Holzer and Nicoletta Marconi)

Part III Excavating Place 8. Building on 'Hollow Land': Skill and Expertise in Foundation-Laying Practices in the Low Countries in the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries (Merlijn Hurx)

9. The 'Conquest' and Construction of an Urban Place: The Insula dei Gesuiti in Venice in the Early Modern Period (Ludovica Galeazzo)

10. Exploring the Book of Fortresses (Edward Triplett)

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