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Author Vesentini, Andrea, 1985- author.

Title Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia / Andrea Vesentini
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Midcentury : architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design
Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.)
Contents Together and apart : encapsulation and the automobile -- The house of anxiety : introversion in domestic design -- The lump in the garden : the fallout shelter and the inhumation of everyday life -- It's cool inside : advertising the social thermodynamics of air-conditioning -- A vista of one's own : glass walls, picture windows, and the interiorization of the outdoors -- From Southdale to the Axiom : design for a better outdoors inside the mall -- Domocracy : the life and death of great indoor cities
Summary "Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-- These are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, ezamining their design, use, and representation. ..."--Publisher's announcement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Suburban life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 20th century
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Architecture and society
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects
Suburban life
Suburbs
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813941585
081394158X
0813941806
9780813941806