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Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890-1970
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park :
Penn State University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Buildings, landscapes, and societies.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY
- Introduction: Air-Conditioning and the Historiography of Modern Architecture
- CHAPTER 1 Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building and Mechanical Cooling, 1890-1910
- CHAPTER 2 Industrial Air-Conditioning from the Daylight Factory to the Windowless Factory, 1905-40
- CHAPTER 3 The Architecture of Air-Conditioning in Movie Theaters, 1917-40
- CHAPTER 4 Air-Conditioning Comes to the Nation's Capital and the South, 1928-60
- CHAPTER 5 The First Air-Conditioned Tall Buildings, 1928-32
- CHAPTER 6 Frank Lloyd Wright's "Windowless" Buildings for SC Johnson Company and the Air-Conditioned Tower
- CHAPTER 7 Air-Conditioned Glass Buildings in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- CHAPTER 8 Louis I. Kahn's Architecture and Air-Conditioning to the 1970s
- Coda: Air-Conditioning and the New Consciousness of Energy in Architecture Since the 1970s
- Appendix: Compressive Refrigeration and the Heat Pump
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX