Siry, Joseph, 1956-, Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970 , [2021]
- Title(s):
Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970 / Joseph M. Siry.
- Published/Created:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
©2021 - Physical Description:
- xxi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 24 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryTH7687 .S55 2021 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15807331
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) and index.
"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"-- Provided by publisher. - Subject Terms:
- Air conditioning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.Air conditioning.Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.Architecture.United States.
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- 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.