Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970 / / Joseph M. Siry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
• VerfasserIn: Siry, Joseph M.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 150 illustrations

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Notes on Terminology
• Introduction. Air-Conditioning and the Historiography of Modern Architecture
• Chapter 1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building and Mechanical Cooling, 1890–1910
• Chapter 2. Industrial Air-Conditioning from the Daylight Factory to the Windowless Factory, 1905–40
• Chapter 3. The Architecture of Air-Conditioning in Movie Theaters, 1917–40
• Chapter 4. Air-Conditioning Comes to the Nation’s Capital and the South, 1928–60
• Chapter 5. The First Air-Conditioned Tall Buildings, 1928–32
• Chapter 6. Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Windowless” Buildings for SC Johnson Company and the Air-Conditioned Tower
• Chapter 7. Air-Conditioned Glass Buildings in the Mid- Twentieth Century
• Chapter 8. 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
• Selected Bibliography
• Index