Windowless Houses.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 31

Windowless Houses.

De. H, EB. FREB, in an address recently delivered before the Wlectrical Association of New York, forecasts that before twenty years are over our heads we shall be living in houses in which windows have only an artistic yalue. Sunlight lamps, artificial weather, and soundproof rooms will then be the vogue, he declares. Moreover, such houses, with their electric ventilation and their glareless illumination, in which rays are given off in controlled proportion to’ the sunlight, will be provided at prices well within the reach of people of moderate means. Such houses,’ Dr. Free adds, "are no dream of Utopia, but something on which construction could begin to-day if the industry decided to do so." Present-day homes, he maintains, are either too hot or too cold, too moist or too dry, too draughty or to stuffy, and the correction of all these faults along with those of improper lighting he states, are all available,