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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"--
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Buildings, landscapes, and societies ;
11. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.