| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 11
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Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 11.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Air conditioning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Air conditioning. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture. |
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ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Siry, Joseph, 1956- Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021] 9780271089003 (DLC) 2020034369 (OCoLC)1183398818 |
| ISBN |
9780271089003 (electronic book) |
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0271089008 (electronic book) |
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9780271089256 (electronic book) |
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0271089253 (electronic book) |
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9780271086941 |
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0271086947 |
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