Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970 / Joseph M. Siry.
| Author/creator | Siry, Joseph, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xxi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Buildings, landscapes, and societies series Buildings, landscapes, and societies. ^A984171 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020034369 |
| ISBN | 9780271086941 (cloth) |
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