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Barber, Daniel A.

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The Modern Solar House: Architecture, Energy, and the Emergence of Environmentalism, 1938--1959.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Modern Solar House: Architecture, Energy, and the Emergence of Environmentalism, 1938--1959./
Author:	Barber, Daniel A.
Description:	780 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-05A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3448323
ISBN:	9781124542973

The Modern Solar House: Architecture, Energy, and the Emergence of Environmentalism, 1938--1959.
Barber, Daniel A.

The Modern Solar House: Architecture, Energy, and the Emergence of Environmentalism, 1938--1959. - 780 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2010.

This dissertation describes the active discourse regarding solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the eve of World War II until the late 1950s. Interweaving these multiple narratives, the aim of the project is threefold: to document this vital discourse, to place it in the context of the history of architecture, and to trace through it the emergence of a techno-cultural environmentalism.

ISBN: 9781124542973Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

The Modern Solar House: Architecture, Energy, and the Emergence of Environmentalism, 1938--1959.
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520 $a This dissertation describes the active discourse regarding solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the eve of World War II until the late 1950s. Interweaving these multiple narratives, the aim of the project is threefold: to document this vital discourse, to place it in the context of the history of architecture, and to trace through it the emergence of a techno-cultural environmentalism.
520 $a Experimentation in the solar house relied on the principles of modern architecture for both energy efficiency and claims to cultural relevance. A passive "solar house principle" was developed in the late 30s in the suburban houses of George Fred Keck that involved open plans and flexible roof lines, and emphasized volumetric design. Spurred by wartime concern over energy resource depletion, architectural interest in solar heating also engaged an engineering discourse; in particular, an experimental program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led to four solar houses and a codification of its technological parameters. Attention to the MIT projects at the UN and in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations placed the solar house as a central node in an emergent network exploring the problems and possibilities of a renewable resource economy.
520 $a Further experimentation elaborated on connections between this architecturalengineering discourse and the technical assistance regimes of development assistance; here by MIT researcher Maria Telkes, who also collaborated, at different junctures, with the architects Eleanor Raymond and Aladar Olgyay. The solar house discourse was further developed as a cultural project in the 1958 competition to design a solar heated residence, "Living With the Sun," which coalesced the diverse formal tendencies of midcentury modernism to promote the solar house as an innovation in both lifestyle and policy.
520 $a Though the examples described are not successful as either technological objects and cultural projects, the story of the modern solar house excavates a history of the present anxiety concerning the relationship between environmental and social conditions. Perhaps most cogently, the narrative reconfigures the role of architecture within such discussions, as a site for both technological innovation and for experimentation in the formation of an environmentalist culture.
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