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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies ; 11Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 150 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271089256
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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
Summary: 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 the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project.Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism.A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.
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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

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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 the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project.Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism.A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.

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In English.

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