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Prior to air conditioning, many American buildings were similarly designed for natural cooling. Air conditioning has allowed for a style of architecture that's

• thaumasiotes 7y ago
  > Air conditioning has allowed for a style of architecture that's inherently inefficient. While this is true, it's also true that air conditioning has allowed for settlement in places that were basically unlivable before, like much of the American South. You can only go so far with clever architecture.
  • DocTomoe 7y ago
    Oh please, unliveable? People have lived in the mediterranean area, in Egypt and the Arabian peninsular, in the jungles of Indochina, in the Amazon basin, long before air conditioning was even a thing.