Introduction. Air-Conditioning and the Historiography of Modern Architecture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Abbreviations xx
6. Notes on Terminology xxi
7. Introduction. Air-Conditioning and the Historiography of Modern Architecture 1
8. Chapter 1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building and Mechanical Cooling, 1890–1910 12
9. Chapter 2. Industrial Air-Conditioning from the Daylight Factory to the Windowless Factory, 1905–40 40
10. Chapter 3. The Architecture of Air-Conditioning in Movie Theaters, 1917–40 62
11. Chapter 4. Air-Conditioning Comes to the Nation’s Capital and the South, 1928–60 83
12. Chapter 5. The First Air-Conditioned Tall Buildings, 1928–32 113
13. Chapter 6. Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Windowless” Buildings for SC Johnson Company and the Air-Conditioned Tower 133
14. Chapter 7. Air-Conditioned Glass Buildings in the Mid- Twentieth Century 159
15. Chapter 8. Louis I. Kahn’s Architecture and Air-Conditioning to the 1970s 193
16. Coda: Air-Conditioning and the New Consciousness of Energy in Architecture Since the 1970s 235
17. Appendix: Compressive Refrigeration and the Heat Pump 237
18. Notes 241
19. Selected Bibliography 269
20. Index 275