Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars
Taking the reader on an inward journey from facades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. The book launches from a matrix of related platforms a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen s sketches to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change....

Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars

Taking the reader on an inward journey from facades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. The book launches from a matrix of related "platforms"--a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen's sketches--to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual...