Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890-1970

by Joseph M Siry and Joseph M. Siry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271086955
• ISBN13: 9780271086958
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 10.0"