Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970 / Joseph M. Siry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siry, Joseph, 1956- author.

Series:

Buildings, landscapes, and societies

Buildings, landscapes, and societies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air conditioning--United States--History--20th century.

Air conditioning.

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780271086941

0271086947

OCLC:

1183398818

Publisher Number:

40030445171