Title A house in the sun : modern architecture and solar energy in the Cold War / Daniel A. Barber

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Contents Introduction: Architecture, technology, and politics -- The modern solar house -- What is a house? -- Discovering renewable resources -- Experimental dwellings -- All-solar houses -- The World Solar Energy Project -- Design and research -- Architecture and the sun -- Conclusion: Architecture and environmentalism Summary "A House in the Sun describes a number of solar house experiments in the 1940s and 1950s. The houses relied on the materials and ideas of modern architecture for both energy efficiency and claims to cultural relevance, and also developed out of a growing concern over global resource limits"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Solar houses -- History -- 20th century Solar energy -- Research -- History -- 20th century House construction -- Research -- History -- 20th century Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 20th century Architecture and energy conservation -- History -- 20th century Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 20th century Architecture and energy conservation. Architecture, Domestic. Architecture -- Environmental aspects. House construction -- Research. Solar energy -- Research. Solar houses. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190274467 0190274468 0199394024 9780199394029 9780199394036 0199394032

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