Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Siry, Joseph, 1956- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Series:	Buildings, landscapes, and societies.
Subjects:	Air conditioning > United States > History > 20th century. Architecture > United States > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.