A History of Architecture and Trade

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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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

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