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Book Review: Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning

Book Review: Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning book reviews 429 Extensively referenced and mostly well illustrated, this book deserves to be in every architecture school library and is likely to provide the material for seminars, discussions and debates on race in architecture in the US and internationally. From my viewpoint in advocating for the global south, I hope this book will be made accessible to academics there, too, perhaps as a discounted or open-access digital resource. Daniel Barber, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 336 pp. incl. 196 b&w and 76 colour ills, ISBN 9780691170039, £50 (paperback) doi:10.1017/arh.2021.29 Reviewed by FLORIAN URBAN Modern Architecture and Climate is the outcome of Daniel Barber’s decade-long investigations of modern architecture, which he started against the background of the climate emergency. Against this background, harnessing historical research for current concerns is perhaps the book’s single most important contribution. Barber, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, will be familiar to some readers from his earlier work on the Bauhaus. In his 2019 article ‘Heating the Bau- haus’, published online at hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:28553, he unsparingly deconstructed the myths surrounding Walter Gropius’s 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau. While to generations of students it has been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Architectural History Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning

Urban, Florian
Architectural History , Volume 64: 3 – Jan 1, 2021
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10.1017/arh.2021.29
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book reviews 429 Extensively referenced and mostly well illustrated, this book deserves to be in every architecture school library and is likely to provide the material for seminars, discussions and debates on race in architecture in the US and internationally. From my viewpoint in advocating for the global south, I hope this book will be made accessible to academics there, too, perhaps as a discounted or open-access digital resource. Daniel Barber, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 336 pp. incl. 196 b&w and 76 colour ills, ISBN 9780691170039, £50 (paperback) doi:10.1017/arh.2021.29 Reviewed by FLORIAN URBAN Modern Architecture and Climate is the outcome of Daniel Barber’s decade-long investigations of modern architecture, which he started against the background of the climate emergency. Against this background, harnessing historical research for current concerns is perhaps the book’s single most important contribution. Barber, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, will be familiar to some readers from his earlier work on the Bauhaus. In his 2019 article ‘Heating the Bau- haus’, published online at hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:28553, he unsparingly deconstructed the myths surrounding Walter Gropius’s 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau. While to generations of students it has been

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