A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War

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Notes

1. See Reynar Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment. 2nd ed. (London: The Architectural Press, 1984).

2. Colin Porteous, The New Eco-architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement (London: Spon Press, 2002); Paul Overy, Light, Air & Openness: Modern Architecture between the Wars (London: Thames & Hudson, 2007).

3. See Jiat-Hwee Chang, A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016); David Gissen, “Thermopolis,” Journal of Architectural Education 60, no. 1 (2006): 43–53; Jiat-Hwee Chang and Tim Winter, “Thermal Modernity and Architecture,” The Journal of Architecture 20, no. 1 (2015): 92–121.

4. Compare to Greg Castillo’s presentation of American and Soviet perspectives throughout Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (Minneapolis: University of Minneasota Press, 2010).