Land air sea : architecture and environment in the early modern era Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era posits that the long Renaissance and eighteenth century are vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in current debates on climate change and sustainability were already developed in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains Land Air Sea consists of case studies that examine how questions of sustainability were formulated and addressed in early modern architecture and the built environment. With respect to emergent technologies indigenous cultural beliefs natural philosophy and political statecraft the book aims to transform our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by studying early modern approaches to human impacts on the habitable world