Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890-1970 [electronic resource] / Joseph M. Siry.

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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.

"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.

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