Vesentini, Andrea, 1985-

Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia / Andrea Vesentini. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Midcentury : architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780813941585 9780813941806


Architecture and society--History--United States--20th century.
Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Suburban life--History--United States--20th century.
Suburbs--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic Books.

NA2543 / .I536 2018