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Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970

"Traces the history of air conditioning as an environmental technology and its integration into American architecture from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1970s"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siry, Joseph, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : air-conditioning and the historiography of modern architecture
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building and mechanical cooling, 1890-1910
  • Industrial air-conditioning from the daylight factory to the windowless factory, 1905-40
  • The architecture of air-conditioning in movie theaters, 1917-40
  • Air-conditioning comes to the nation's capital and the South, 1928-60
  • The first air-conditioned tall buildings, 1928-32
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's "windowless" buildings for SC Johnson Company and the air-conditioned tower
  • Air-conditioned glass buildings at the mid-twentieth century
  • 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.