Description:
Wesleyan University. He is the author of four books, including most recently Beth Sholom Synagogue:
Brief description: Joseph M. Siry is Professor of Art History and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. He is the author of four books, including most recently Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture.
Review Quotes:
"Siry has written an interesting and necessary text. By carefully examining a number of familiar buildings and architects, he reveals that the role of HVAC systems was essential to design debates in American modernism. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, the book advances a novel and refreshing account of the technological and social issues that inform architectural developments."
--Daniel A. Barber, author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning