# Does Air Conditioning Make Architects Lazy?

- Link: https://www.oldhouseguy.com/how-to-live-without-air-conditioning/
- Published: 2012-06-20T09:20:00-04:00
- Author: Ken Roginski

[⌊How to live without air conditioning in a new house?⌉⌊How to live without air 
conditioning in a new house?⌉[

How to live without air conditioning in a new house? New houses are not designed
to be without air conditioning.

If you don’t understand how to live without air conditioning in a new house you 
are right – you really can’t.

According to the author of the article below, “Air Conditioning not only makes architects
lazy, but it also makes them stupid.”

The article states that architects (builders should also be mentioned) no longer
consider design features, roof eaves, double hung windows, landscaping, rooms facing
south, etc. before the house is built to make it operate cooler and more economically
efficient during the hot summer months.

It states that **we no longer think about how to make a building “work” because 
you can just buy an air conditioner** and stick it in your window.

## How to live without air conditioning?

Old houses are designed for better cooling.  Many of the simple ways to keep an 
old house cool have been forgotten over the years.  Read the full article below.

[Does Air Conditioning make Architects Lazy? ](https://tedium.co/2019/07/09/air-conditioning-architecture-impact/)

Here is another good article.  [10 Ways to Cool an Old House ](https://web.archive.org/web/20160413125955/http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/the-deluded-world-of-air-conditioning-revisited/page2.html).

We all get so many articles with similar titles from our utility company and it 
is just the same old lame information every time.  Always a waste!  However, this
article actually shows **how to tune your double hung windows to operate as they
were originally designed to operate**.

We all sometimes forget that Shutters, Awnings, Double Hung Windows all have a purpose.
If you already have shutters, here is some information you really need to know about
[shutter mounting and design ](https://www.oldhouseguy.com/shutters).

Now if you like all this information and really want to understand the theory behind
passive cooling of a home and how to **create the best draft to suck the heat out
of your house**, check out the links below.  There are quite a few techniques and
you don’t even need electricity!  This information will really help on how to live
without air conditioning.