Peter Minosh

This course considers architecture, urbanism, and landscapes in a global context throughout the long eighteenth century. We will consider European architecture’s relation to enlightenment thought, developments in the natural sciences, and political transformations. We will also consider these claims upon enlightenment relationally to the infrastructures of European colonialism. We will examine the plantations of the West Indies and the Southern United states; French and English estates and gardens of a rising colonial bourgeoisie; and the slave factories of western Africa. Taken together these works map the global circulation of people, capital, commodities, and revolutionary ideas. We thus consider eighteenth century architecture as a transnational culture of global modernity.