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The Legacy of Albert Kahn
From the Back Cover: An invaluable handbook tracing the creative genius of Albert Kahn, one of America's most distinguished architects, The Legacy of Albert Kahn presents a chronology of designs in the areas of commercial, civic, institutional, and domestic architecture. Over 280 photographs, drawings, and floor plans illustrate the highly readable text.
Albert Kahn
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Albert Kahn
A thorough text and some 90 bandw photographs and drawings present the projects of seminal industrial architect Kahn (1869-1942), including the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan; Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit Michigan; Tractor Plant, Stalingrad, Russia; General Motors Building, Chicago World's Fair; and Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Albert Kahn
A Biography of the German-Born Jewish Architect Who, From the 1880s Through the Early 1940s, Designed Elegant Homes, Factories for Henry Ford, and Industrial Plants to Support the United States' War Effort.
Building the Modern World
A photographically rich biography of protean architect Albert Kahn. Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael H. Hodges tells the story of the German-Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty to become one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Kahn’s buildings not only define downtown Detroit, but his early car factories for Packard Motor and Ford revolutionized the course of industry and architecture alike. Employing archival sources unavailable to previous biographers, Building the Modern World follows Kahn from his apprenticeship at age thirteen with a prominent Detroit architecture firm to his death. With material gleaned from two significant Kahn...
Cosmopolitics of the Camera
An in-depth intellectual and historical analysis of Les Archives de la Planète, Albert Kahn's collection of early colour photography and documentary film. The book examines the extraordinary context of Kahn's work, considers archival theory and visual culture, and investigates the cosmopolitan strategies of Kahn and associates, e.g. Henri Bergson.
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