It's Cool Inside: Advertising Air Conditioning to Postwar Suburbia

Andrea Vesentini is a cultural historian specializing in postwar American urbanism and visual culture. He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, where he researched the history and representation of postwar suburban interiors. He taught literature and liberal arts at Birkbeck and presented at several universities and institutions such as London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts and Science Museum, the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture and Punta della Dogana in Venice. He has collaborated with La Biennale di Venezia on the 15th International Architecture Exhibition (2016) and the 54th and 57th International Art Exhibitions (2011, 2017). His forthcoming book Indoor America: the Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia, will be published by The University of Virginia Press in 2018.

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