Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) and index.
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.
Subject Terms:
Air conditioning -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Air conditioning. | Architecture. | United States.